That which takes us by surprise-moments of happiness-that is inspiration.
AGNES MARTINOnce he sees this fact his feet are on the path. If you want to know the truth you will know it.
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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Fulfill your potential. That’s the way to happiness.
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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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The manipulation of materials in an artwork is a result of this state of mind.
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The adventurous state of mind is a high house… The joy of adventure is unaccountable.
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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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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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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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The artist works by awareness of his own state of mind.
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Pollock was terrific. I think he freed himself of all kinds of worry about this world. Ran around and dripped, and then he managed to express ecstasy.
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We all have the same concern, but the artist must know exactly what the experience is. He must pursue the truth relentlessly
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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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The enormous pitfall is devotion to oneself instead of to life. All works that are self-devoted are absolutely ineffective.
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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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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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Withdraws and makes itself up again pulls itself together with pride towers with pride rushes forward into imaginary conquest crashes in frustration withdraws with remorse and repentance pulls itself together with new resolution
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The Minimalists are idealist. They want to minimise themselves in favour of the ideal. But I just can’t. You see, my paintings are not cool.
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I paint with my back to the world
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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 think everyone sees beauty. Art is a way to respond
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You must find the things that you do like. The things that are acceptable to your mind.
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Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.
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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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My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They’re just horizontal lines.
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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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There’s not any hint of nature. And still everybody responds, I think.
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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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