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.
AGNES MARTINBeauty 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 think our minds respond to things beyond this world. Take beauty: it’s a very mysterious thing, isn’t it?
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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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When you look in your mind you find it covered with a lot of rubbishy thoughts.
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I want to emphasize the fact that we all have the same experience and the same concern, but the artist must know exactly what the experience is. He must pursue the truth relentlessly.
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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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Any material may be used but the theme is the same and the response is the same for all artwork.
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Anything can be painted without representation.
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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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The adventurous state of mind is a high house… The joy of adventure is unaccountable.
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I paint with my back to the world
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Give up doing the things that you do not like to do.
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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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Fulfill your potential. That’s the way to happiness.
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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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The enormous pitfall is devotion to oneself instead of to life. All works that are self-devoted are absolutely ineffective.
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