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It’s not about facts, it’s about feelings. It’s about remembering feelings and happiness.

Agnes Martin

Fulfill your potential. That’s the way to happiness.
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Fulfill Happiness Potential Way
You have to penetrate these and hear what your mind is telling you to do. Such work is original work.
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Hear Mind Original Penetrate Telling Work
It’s through discipline and tremendous disappointment and failure that you arrive at what it is you must paint.
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Arrive Disappointment Discipline Failure Must Paint Through
You must find the things that you do like. The things that are acceptable to your mind.
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Acceptable Find Mind Think Thinking
The worst thing you can think about when you’re working is yourself.
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Think Thinking Working Worst Yourself
I’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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Careful Idea Inaccurate
That which takes us by surprise-moments of happiness-that is inspiration.
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Art Happiness Inspiration Moment Surprise Take
I would like my work to be recognized as being in the classical tradition (Coptic, Egyptian, Greek, Chinese), as representing the Ideal in the mind. Classical art cannot possibly be eclectic.
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Art Classical Memories Perfection Tradition
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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Art Awareness Beauty Eye Life Mystery Perfection Think
To progress in life you must give up the things you do not like.
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Giving Life Like Mind Progress Thing Up
I think everyone sees beauty. Art is a way to respond
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Art Beauty Everyone Respond See Way
The artist works by awareness of his own state of mind.
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Artist Awareness Mind Own State Work
Any material may be used but the theme is the same and the response is the same for all artwork.
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Artist Artwork Material May Response Theme
I 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
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Adult Art Course Night Once Taught Think Thinking
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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First Grid Happenedm Innocense Made Mind Satisfy Think Thinking Tree
It’s not about facts, it’s about feelings. It’s about remembering feelings and happiness.
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Art Fact Feeling Happiness Remembering Thinking

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