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"I want to make exalted art. A successful image has pictorial lift. I am looking for whatever is up there."
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"Things that you have remained 'sincere' to, those many things you have won. The world has to be won; only then will it let you go to moksha!"

"Success is not the final destination but the stepping stone for the next."

"Luck ... taps once in a lifetime at everybody's door but if industry does not open it luck goes away."

"Live the Life of Your DreamsWhen you start living the life of your dreams, there will always be obstacles, doubters, mistakes and setbacks along the way. But with hard work, perseverance and self-belief there is no limit to what you can achieve."

"Show me your talents and I'll show you your net worth."

"There is only one real purpose of a real revolution: To move forward!"

"The only way to get what you're worth is to stand out, to exert emotional labor, to be seen as indispensable, and to produce interactions that organizations and people care deeply about."

"Always let your talent do the talking. Never your tantrums."
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"But, after all, the aim of art is to create space - space that is not compromised by decoration or illustration, space within which the subjects of painting can live."

"I don't like a lot of the stuff that goes on in the art world, but it's hard to be old and like what goes on around you."

"Architecture can't fully represent the chaos and turmoil that are part of the human personality, but you need to put some of that turmoil into the architecture, or it isn't real."

"When I'm painting the picture, I'm really painting a picture. I may have a flat-footed technique, or something like that, but still, to me, the thrill, or the meat of the thing, is the actual painting. I don't get any thrill out of laying it out."

"I was worried in the '80s that the best abstract painting had become obsessed with materiality, and painterly gestures and materiality were up against the wall."

"Up until 35 I had a slightly skewed world view. I honestly believed everybody in the world wanted to make abstract paintings, and people only became lawyers and doctors and brokers and things because they couldn't make abstract paintings."

"No art is any good unless you can feel how it's put together. By and large it's the eye, the hand and if it's any good, you feel the body. Most of the best stuff seems to be a complete gesture, the totality of the artist's body; you can really lean on it."
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