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.
AGNES MARTINI 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
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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Doing what you were born to do … That’s the way to be happy.
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The worst thing you can think about when you’re working is yourself.
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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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When you look in your mind you find it covered with a lot of rubbishy thoughts.
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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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I want to say that they are not what they seem to be. I want to say that all that seems like fantastic mistakes are not mistake.
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Give up doing the things that you do not like to do.
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Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.
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When I think of art I think of beauty. Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye it is in the mind. In our minds there is awareness of perfection.
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What I say is that we’re capable of a transcendent response, and I think it makes us happy. And I do think beauty produces a transcendent response.
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This is the attractiveness of artwork. It is adventurous, strenuous and joyful.
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Pollock was terrific. I think he freed himself of all kinds of worry about this world. Ran around and dripped, and then he managed to express ecstasy.
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You can’t make a perfect painting. We can see perfection in our minds. But we can’t make a perfect painting.
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I want to emphasize the fact that we all have the same experience and the same concern, but the artist must know exactly what the experience is. He must pursue the truth relentlessly.
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