When you look in your mind you find it covered with a lot of rubbishy thoughts.
AGNES MARTINThe happiness of every living thing is what we want.
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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I used to meditate until I learned to stop thinking.
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The enormous pitfall is devotion to oneself instead of to life. All works that are self-devoted are absolutely ineffective.
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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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I paint with my back to the world
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Once he sees this fact his feet are on the path. If you want to know the truth you will know it.
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My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They’re just horizontal lines.
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I think everyone sees beauty. Art is a way to respond
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I think our minds respond to things beyond this world. Take beauty: it’s a very mysterious thing, isn’t it?
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All that seems like error is not error; and it all has to be done. That which seems like a false step is the next step.
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I once taught art to adults in a night course. I had a woman who painted her back yard, and she said it was the first time she had ever really looked at it. I think everyone sees beauty. Art is a way to respond
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It is commonly thought that everything that is can be put into words.
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They are immeasurable, completely lacking in substance. They are perfect and sublime. This is the subject matter of art.
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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 innocence, and I still do, and so I painted it and then I was satisfied. I thought, this is my vision.
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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 itself up,It rushes forward getting nowhere really it crashes
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The artist works by awareness of his own state of mind.
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