It’s not about facts, it’s about feelings. It’s about remembering feelings and happiness.
AGNES MARTINIt 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
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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The happiness of every living thing is what we want.
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Inspiration is there all the time. For everyone whose mind is not clouded over with thoughts whether they realize it or not.
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A definition of art is that it makes concrete our most subtle emotions. I think the highest form of art is music. It’s the most abstract of all art expression.
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The artist works by awareness of his own state of mind.
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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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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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The manipulation of materials in an artwork is a result of this state of mind.
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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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The worst thing you can think about when you’re working is yourself.
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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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This is the attractiveness of artwork. It is adventurous, strenuous and joyful.
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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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Fulfill your potential. That’s the way to happiness.
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It is commonly thought that everything that is can be put into words.
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It’s through discipline and tremendous disappointment and failure that you arrive at what it is you must paint.
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