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 MARTINThere’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.
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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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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Anything can be painted without representation.
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I think everyone sees beauty. Art is a way to respond
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The manipulation of materials in an artwork is a result of this state of mind.
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The happiness of every living thing is what we want.
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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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I’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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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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Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye, it is in the mind.
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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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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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When you look in your mind you find it covered with a lot of rubbishy thoughts.
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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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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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Any material may be used but the theme is the same and the response is the same for all artwork.
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