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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.

Agnes Martin

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 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
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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Beyond Expand Mind People Perfection Realizing Response World
Fulfill your potential. That’s the way to happiness.
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Fulfill Happiness Potential Way
The enormous pitfall is devotion to oneself instead of to life. All works that are self-devoted are absolutely ineffective.
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Devotion Enormous Instead Life Oneself Pitfall Self
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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Beach Cross Curtain Empty Look Nature Ocean Painting
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
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
You must find the things that you do like. The things that are acceptable to your mind.
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Acceptable Find Mind Think Thinking
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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Art Himself Kind Pollock Terrific Think Thinking Worry
It’s not about facts, it’s about feelings. It’s about remembering feelings and happiness.
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Art Fact Feeling Happiness Remembering Thinking
I’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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Careful Idea Inaccurate
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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Beauty Beyond Mind Mysterious Respond Thing Thinking World
You can’t make a perfect painting. We can see perfection in our minds. But we can’t make a perfect painting.
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Art Mind Painting Perfect Perfection
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
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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Afternoon Beach Front Living Nature Nobody Ocean Stand Waterfall

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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