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This is the attractiveness of artwork. It is adventurous, strenuous and joyful.

Agnes Martin

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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Battle Destroy Destroyed Ego Endless Frustration Life Pride
My paintings are not about what is seen. They are about what is known forever in the mind.
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Forever Mind Painting Perception Seen
When you look in your mind you find it covered with a lot of rubbishy thoughts.
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Covered Look Looking Mind Rubbishy Thought
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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Favour Idea Idealist Minimalist Minimise Themselves Want
Happiness is being on the beam with life – to feel the pull of life
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Beam Feel Happiness Life Pull
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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Art Beauty Capable Happy Make Response Thinking Transcendent Transendemt
One must see the ideal in one’s own mind. It is like a memory – an awareness -of perfection.
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Awareness Idea Memory Mind Musit One Own Perfection
Doing what you were born to do … That’s the way to be happy.
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Born Doing Happy Way
I think everyone sees beauty. Art is a way to respond
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Art Beauty Everyone Respond See Way
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
This is the attractiveness of artwork. It is adventurous, strenuous and joyful.
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Adventurous Artwork Attractiveness Joyful Stremous
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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First Grid Happenedm Innocense Made Mind Satisfy Think Thinking Tree
Any material may be used but the theme is the same and the response is the same for all artwork.
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Artist Artwork Material May Response Theme
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
I would like my work to be recognized as being in the classical tradition (Coptic, Egyptian, Greek, Chinese), as representing the Ideal in the mind. Classical art cannot possibly be eclectic.
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Art Classical Memories Perfection Tradition

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