One must see the ideal in one’s own mind. It is like a memory – an awareness -of perfection.
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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.
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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One must see the ideal in one’s own mind. It is like a memory – an awareness -of perfection.
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You have to penetrate these and hear what your mind is telling you to do. Such work is original work.
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Anything can be painted without representation.
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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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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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I often paint tranquility. If you stop thinking and rest, then a little happiness comes into your mind. At perfect rest you are comfortable.
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It would be an endless battle if it were all up to ego because it does not destroy and is not destroyed by itself It is like a wave it makes itself up,It rushes forward getting nowhere really it crashes
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I’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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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 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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I used to meditate until I learned to stop thinking.
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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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To progress in life you must give up the things you do not like.
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Give up doing the things that you do not like to do.
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