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 MARTINWhen you look in your mind you find it covered with a lot of rubbishy thoughts.
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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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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The worst thing you can think about when you’re working is yourself.
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This is the attractiveness of artwork. It is adventurous, strenuous and joyful.
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I hope I have made it clear that the work is about perfection as we are aware of it in our minds but that the paintings are very far from being perfect – completely removed in fact – even as we ourselves are.
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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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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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The adventurous state of mind is a high house… The joy of adventure is unaccountable.
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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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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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I paint with my back to the world
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Happiness is being on the beam with life – to feel the pull of life
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The artist works by awareness of his own state of mind.
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Give up doing the things that you do not like to do.
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That which takes us by surprise-moments of happiness-that is inspiration.
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