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.
AGNES MARTINFulfill your potential. That’s the way to happiness.
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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I want to say that they are not what they seem to be. I want to say that all that seems like fantastic mistakes are not mistake.
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Anything can be painted without representation.
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I used to meditate until I learned to stop thinking.
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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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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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That which takes us by surprise-moments of happiness-that is inspiration.
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It’s through discipline and tremendous disappointment and failure that you arrive at what it is you must paint.
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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 think our minds respond to things beyond this world. Take beauty: it’s a very mysterious thing, isn’t it?
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The worst thing you can think about when you’re working is yourself.
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Doing what you were born to do … That’s the way to be happy.
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I think everyone sees beauty. Art is a way to respond
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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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You have to penetrate these and hear what your mind is telling you to do. Such work is original work.
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