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The worst thing you can think about when you’re working is yourself.

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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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You can’t make a perfect painting. We can see perfection in our minds. But we can’t make a perfect painting.
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The worst thing you can think about when you’re working is yourself.
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Think Thinking Working Worst Yourself
The enormous pitfall is devotion to oneself instead of to life. All works that are self-devoted are absolutely ineffective.
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Give up doing the things that you do not like to do.
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I used to meditate until I learned to stop thinking.
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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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My paintings are not about what is seen. They are about what is known forever in the mind.
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Forever Mind Painting Perception Seen
There’s nobody living who couldn’t stand all afternoon in front of a waterfall …. Anyone who can sit on a stone in a field awhile can see my painting.
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Afternoon Beach Front Living Nature Nobody Ocean Stand Waterfall
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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Happiness Mind Often Paint Perfect Stop Think Thinking Tranquility
I want to emphasize the fact that we all have the same experience and the same concern, but the artist must know exactly what the experience is. He must pursue the truth relentlessly.
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Artist Concern Emphasize Exactly Experience Feet Mind Pursue Relentlessly Same
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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Art Classical Memories Perfection Tradition
The adventurous state of mind is a high house… The joy of adventure is unaccountable.
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When you look in your mind you find it covered with a lot of rubbishy thoughts.
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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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I think everyone sees beauty. Art is a way to respond
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Art Beauty Everyone Respond See Way
The Minimalists are idealist. They want to minimise themselves in favour of the ideal. But I just can’t. You see, my paintings are not cool.
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Favour Idea Idealist Minimalist Minimise Themselves Want
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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You must find the things that you do like. The things that are acceptable to your mind.
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My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They’re just horizontal lines.
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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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To progress in life you must give up the things you do not like.
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Giving Life Like Mind Progress Thing Up
It’s through discipline and tremendous disappointment and failure that you arrive at what it is you must paint.
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Arrive Disappointment Discipline Failure Must Paint Through
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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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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Abstract Art Beauty Happiness Perfect Pervasive Sublime Unattached
Fulfill your potential. That’s the way to happiness.
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Fulfill Happiness Potential Way
I’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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Careful Idea Inaccurate

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