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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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Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.
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I’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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They are immeasurable, completely lacking in substance. They are perfect and sublime. This is the subject matter of art.
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You have to penetrate these and hear what your mind is telling you to do. Such work is original work.
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I paint with my back to the world
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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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Anything can be painted without representation.
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It would be an endless battle if it were all up to ego because it does not destroy and is not destroyed by itself It is like a wave it makes itself up,It rushes forward getting nowhere really it crashes
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I want to say that they are not what they seem to be. I want to say that all that seems like fantastic mistakes are not mistake.
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That which takes us by surprise-moments of happiness-that is inspiration.
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Withdraws and makes itself up again pulls itself together with pride towers with pride rushes forward into imaginary conquest crashes in frustration withdraws with remorse and repentance pulls itself together with new resolution
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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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Beauty and happiness and life are all the same and they are pervasive, unattached and abstract and they are our only concern.
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Give up doing the things that you do not like to do.
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I once taught art to adults in a night course. I had a woman who painted her back yard, and she said it was the first time she had ever really looked at it. I think everyone sees beauty. Art is a way to respond
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I often paint tranquility. If you stop thinking and rest, then a little happiness comes into your mind. At perfect rest you are comfortable.
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