Fulfill your potential. That’s the way to happiness.
AGNES MARTINThe happiness of every living thing is what we want.
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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I think it’s a response in our minds to perfection. It’s too bad, people not realizing that their minds expand beyond this world.
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I paint with my back to the world
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I’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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This is the attractiveness of artwork. It is adventurous, strenuous and joyful.
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To progress in life you must give up the things you do not like.
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The worst thing you can think about when you’re working is yourself.
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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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The adventurous state of mind is a high house… The joy of adventure is unaccountable.
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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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There’s not any hint of nature. And still everybody responds, I think.
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Nature is like parting a curtain, you go into it …. as you would cross an empty beach to look at the ocean.
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We all have the same concern, but the artist must know exactly what the experience is. He must pursue the truth relentlessly
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It is commonly thought that everything that is can be put into words.
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My paintings are not about what is seen. They are about what is known forever in the 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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