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.
AGNES MARTINBeauty and happiness and life are all the same and they are pervasive, unattached and abstract and they are our only concern.
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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I paint with my back to the world
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The worst thing you can think about when you’re working is yourself.
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The artist works by awareness of his own state of mind.
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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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Doing what you were born to do … That’s the way to be happy.
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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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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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The manipulation of materials in an artwork is a result of this state of mind.
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The happiness of every living thing is what we want.
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Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye, it is in the mind.
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I think everyone sees beauty. Art is a way to respond
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Happiness is being on the beam with life – to feel the pull of life
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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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Give up doing the things that you do not like to do.
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There’s not any hint of nature. And still everybody responds, I think.
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