Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.
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More Agnes Martin Quotes
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The adventurous state of mind is a high house… The joy of adventure is unaccountable.
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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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I think it’s a response in our minds to perfection. It’s too bad, people not realizing that their minds expand beyond this world.
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My paintings are not about what is seen. They are about what is known forever in the mind.
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Beauty and happiness and life are all the same and they are pervasive, unattached and abstract and they are our only concern.
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Inspiration is there all the time. For everyone whose mind is not clouded over with thoughts whether they realize it or not.
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All that seems like error is not error; and it all has to be done. That which seems like a false step is the next step.
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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.
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The enormous pitfall is devotion to oneself instead of to life. All works that are self-devoted are absolutely ineffective.
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Fulfill your potential. That’s the way to happiness.
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I think everyone sees beauty. Art is a way to respond
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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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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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It’s not about facts, it’s about feelings. It’s about remembering feelings and happiness.
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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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