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.
AGNES MARTINI paint with my back to the world
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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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.
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My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They’re just horizontal lines.
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Doing what you were born to do … That’s the way to be happy.
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The Minimalists are idealist. They want to minimise themselves in favour of the ideal. But I just can’t. You see, my paintings are not cool.
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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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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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That which takes us by surprise-moments of happiness-that is inspiration.
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Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.
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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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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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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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I’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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I used to meditate until I learned to stop thinking.
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When you look in your mind you find it covered with a lot of rubbishy thoughts.
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