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

Agnes Martin

I’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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Careful Idea Inaccurate
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
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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Art Aware Hope Made Mind Ourself Perfect Perfection
When you look in your mind you find it covered with a lot of rubbishy thoughts.
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Covered Look Looking Mind Rubbishy Thought
My paintings are not about what is seen. They are about what is known forever in the mind.
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Forever Mind Painting Perception Seen
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
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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Beauty Beyond Mind Mysterious Respond Thing Thinking World
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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Animal Everyone Happiness Really Serve Unhappy Wanted
They are immeasurable, completely lacking in substance. They are perfect and sublime. This is the subject matter of art.
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Art Completely Lacking Memory Perfect Subject Sublime Substance
Doing what you were born to do … That’s the way to be happy.
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Born Doing Happy Way
Nature is like parting a curtain, you go into it …. as you would cross an empty beach to look at the ocean.
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Beach Cross Curtain Empty Look Nature Ocean Painting
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
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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Art Mind Painting Perfect Perfection
Withdraws and makes itself up again pulls itself together with pride towers with pride rushes forward into imaginary conquest crashes in frustration withdraws with remorse and repentance pulls itself together with new resolution
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Conquer Crashes Forward Make Pride Pull Repentance Tower Withdrawl
One must see the ideal in one’s own mind. It is like a memory – an awareness -of perfection.
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Awareness Idea Memory Mind Musit One Own Perfection
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

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