Occupation: Artist Birth: March 22, 1912 Death: December 16, 2004
The enormous pitfall is devotion to oneself instead of to life. All works that are self-devoted are absolutely ineffective..
Fulfill your potential. That's the way to happiness..
I often paint tranquility. If you stop thinking and rest, then a little happiness comes into your mind. At perfect rest you are comfortable..
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..
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….
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….
Happiness is being on the beam with life - to feel the pull of life.
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….
The worst thing you can think about when you're working is yourself..
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..
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 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 ….
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….
Anything can be painted without representation..
Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings..
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….