The enormous pitfall is devotion to oneself instead of to life. All works that are self-devoted are absolutely ineffective.
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 think our minds respond to things beyond this world. Take beauty: it’s a very mysterious thing, isn’t it?
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There’s nobody living who couldn’t stand all afternoon in front of a waterfall …. Anyone who can sit on a stone in a field awhile can see my painting.
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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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A definition of art is that it makes concrete our most subtle emotions. I think the highest form of art is music. It’s the most abstract of all art expression.
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I think everyone sees beauty. Art is a way to respond
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The manipulation of materials in an artwork is a result of this state of mind.
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Anything can be painted without representation.
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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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Happiness is being on the beam with life – to feel the pull of life
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It is commonly thought that everything that is can be put into words.
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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 certainly nonobjective. They’re just horizontal lines.
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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 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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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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