The enormous pitfall is devotion to oneself instead of to life. All works that are self-devoted are absolutely ineffective.
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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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 think everyone sees beauty. Art is a way to respond
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When you look in your mind you find it covered with a lot of rubbishy thoughts.
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The worst thing you can think about when you’re working is yourself.
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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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Fulfill your potential. That’s the way to happiness.
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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 used to meditate until I learned to stop thinking.
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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 must find the things that you do like. The things that are acceptable to your mind.
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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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One must see the ideal in one’s own mind. It is like a memory – an awareness -of perfection.
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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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I’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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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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