The happiness of every living thing is what we want.
AGNES MARTINAny material may be used but the theme is the same and the response is the same for all artwork.
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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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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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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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.
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Anything can be painted without representation.
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Doing what you were born to do … That’s the way to be happy.
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I used to meditate until I learned to stop thinking.
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When I first made a grid I happened to be thinking of the innocence of trees and then this grid came into my mind and I thought it represented innocence, and I still do, and so I painted it and then I was satisfied. I thought, this is my vision.
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I’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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The artist works by awareness of his own state of mind.
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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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It is commonly thought that everything that is can be put into words.
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Nature is like parting a curtain, you go into it …. as you would cross an empty beach to look at the ocean.
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The manipulation of materials in an artwork is a result of this state of mind.
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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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One must see the ideal in one’s own mind. It is like a memory – an awareness -of perfection.
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