Occupation: Artist Birth: March 22, 1912 Death: December 16, 2004
Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings..
The worst thing you can think about when you're working is yourself..
Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye, it is in the mind..
I'm very careful not to have ideas, because they're inaccurate..
Doing what you were born to do … That's the way to be happy..
My paintings are not about what is seen. They are about what is known forever in the mind..
To progress in life you must give up the things you do not like. Give up doing the things that you do not like to do. You must find the things that y….
It's not about facts, it's about feelings. It's about remembering feelings and happiness. A definition of art is that it makes concrete our most sub….
It's through discipline and tremendous disappointment and failure that you arrive at what it is you must paint..
It is commonly thought that everything that is can be put into words..
I hope I have made it clear that the work is about perfection as we are aware of it in our minds but that the paintings are very far from being perfe….
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..
When you look in your mind you find it covered with a lot of rubbishy thoughts. You have to penetrate these and hear what your mind is telling you to….
Anything can be painted without representation..
I think our minds respond to things beyond this world. Take beauty: it's a very mysterious thing, isn't it? I think it's a response in our minds to ….
Any material may be used but the theme is the same and the response is the same for all artwork... we all have the same concern, but the artist must ….
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. ….
That which takes us by surprise-moments of happiness-that is inspiration..
Of all the pitfalls in our paths and the tremendous delays and wanderings off the track, I want to say that they are not what they seem to be. I want….
Happiness is being on the beam with life - to feel the pull of life.
When I think of art I think of beauty. Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye it is in the mind. In our minds there is awareness of perf….