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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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That which takes us by surprise-moments of happiness-that is inspiration.
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One must see the ideal in one’s own mind. It is like a memory – an awareness -of perfection.
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When you look in your mind you find it covered with a lot of rubbishy thoughts.
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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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All that seems like error is not error; and it all has to be done. That which seems like a false step is the next step.
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Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye, it is in the mind.
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Once he sees this fact his feet are on the path. If you want to know the truth you will know it.
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Give up doing the things that you do not like to do.
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I’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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Nature is like parting a curtain, you go into it …. as you would cross an empty beach to look at the ocean.
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What I say is that we’re capable of a transcendent response, and I think it makes us happy. And I do think beauty produces a transcendent response.
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The happiness of every living thing is what we want.
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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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I would like my work to be recognized as being in the classical tradition (Coptic, Egyptian, Greek, Chinese), as representing the Ideal in the mind. Classical art cannot possibly be eclectic.
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It is commonly thought that everything that is can be put into words.
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There’s not any hint of nature. And still everybody responds, I think.
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