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Happiness is being on the beam with life – to feel the pull of life

Agnes Martin

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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Abstract Art Beauty Happiness Perfect Pervasive Sublime Unattached
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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Done Error False Next Seem Step
Anything can be painted without representation.
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Anything Painting Representation
I used to meditate until I learned to stop thinking.
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Learned Mediate Think Thinking Used
It is commonly thought that everything that is can be put into words.
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Commonly Everything Put Thought Word
They are immeasurable, completely lacking in substance. They are perfect and sublime. This is the subject matter of art.
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Art Completely Lacking Memory Perfect Subject Sublime Substance
The adventurous state of mind is a high house… The joy of adventure is unaccountable.
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Adventure High House Joy Mind State
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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Art Aware Hope Made Mind Ourself Perfect Perfection
When you look in your mind you find it covered with a lot of rubbishy thoughts.
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Covered Look Looking Mind Rubbishy Thought
I’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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Careful Idea Inaccurate
Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye, it is in the mind.
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Beauty Eye Life Mind Mystery
Happiness is being on the beam with life – to feel the pull of life
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Beam Feel Happiness Life Pull
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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Adult Art Course Night Once Taught Think Thinking
Fulfill your potential. That’s the way to happiness.
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Fulfill Happiness Potential Way
What we really want to do is serve happiness. We want everyone to be happy, never unhappy even for a moment. We want the animals to be happy.
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Animal Everyone Happiness Really Serve Unhappy Wanted
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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Artist Concern Emphasize Exactly Experience Feet Mind Pursue Relentlessly Same

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