This is the attractiveness of artwork. It is adventurous, strenuous and joyful.
AGNES MARTINWhat 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.
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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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 everyone sees beauty. Art is a way to respond
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I’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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Doing what you were born to do … That’s the way to be happy.
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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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The happiness of every living thing is what we want.
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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 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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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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To progress in life you must give up the things you do not like.
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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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You have to penetrate these and hear what your mind is telling you to do. Such work is original work.
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Inspiration is there all the time. For everyone whose mind is not clouded over with thoughts whether they realize it or not.
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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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That which takes us by surprise-moments of happiness-that is inspiration.
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