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My paintings are not about what is seen. They are about what is known forever in the mind.

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A definition of art is that it makes concrete our most subtle emotions. I think the highest form of art is music. It’s the most abstract of all art expression.
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Give up doing the things that you do not like to do.
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When you look in your mind you find it covered with a lot of rubbishy thoughts.
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My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They’re just horizontal lines.
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The happiness of every living thing is what we want.
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It’s through discipline and tremendous disappointment and failure that you arrive at what it is you must paint.
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It’s not about facts, it’s about feelings. It’s about remembering feelings and happiness.
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This is the attractiveness of artwork. It is adventurous, strenuous and joyful.
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Pollock was terrific. I think he freed himself of all kinds of worry about this world. Ran around and dripped, and then he managed to express ecstasy.
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There’s not any hint of nature. And still everybody responds, I think.
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When I first made a grid I happened to be thinking of the innocence of trees and then this grid came into my mind and I thought it represented innocence, and I still do, and so I painted it and then I was satisfied. I thought, this is my vision.
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The adventurous state of mind is a high house… The joy of adventure is unaccountable.
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I paint with my back to the world
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The artist works by awareness of his own state of mind.
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I think it’s a response in our minds to perfection. It’s too bad, people not realizing that their minds expand beyond this world.
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Anything can be painted without representation.
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