I'm very careful not to have ideas, because they're inaccurate..

Fulfill your potential. That's the way to happiness..

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 ….

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 painti….

What we really want to do is serve happiness. We want everyone to be happy, never unhappy even for a moment. We want the animals to be happy. The hap….

My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They're just horizontal lines. There's not any hint of nature. And still everybody responds, I think..

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 ….

Happiness is being on the beam with life - to feel the pull of life.

I often paint tranquility. If you stop thinking and rest, then a little happiness comes into your mind. At perfect rest you are comfortable..

Inspiration is there all the time. For everyone whose mind is not clouded over with thoughts whether they realize it or not..

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….

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 itsel….

When I first made a grid I happened to be thinking of the innocence of trees and then this grid came into my mind and I thought it represented innoce….

The adventurous state of mind is a high house... The joy of adventure is unaccountable. This is the attractiveness of artwork. It is adventurous, str….

Beauty and happiness and life are all the same and they are pervasive, unattached and abstract and they are our only concern. They are immeasurable, ….

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

I used to meditate until I learned to stop thinking..

That which takes us by surprise-moments of happiness-that is inspiration..