It’s through discipline and tremendous disappointment and failure that you arrive at what it is you must paint.
AGNES MARTIN
This is the attractiveness of artwork. It is adventurous, strenuous and joyful.
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 paint with my back to the world
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There’s not any hint of nature. And still everybody responds, I think.
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The happiness of every living thing is what we want.
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Doing what you were born to do … That’s the way to be happy.
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My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They’re just horizontal lines.
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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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It’s not about facts, it’s about feelings. It’s about remembering feelings and happiness.
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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 adventurous state of mind is a high house… The joy of adventure is unaccountable.
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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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My paintings are not about what is seen. They are about what is known forever in the mind.
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This is the attractiveness of artwork. It is adventurous, strenuous and joyful.
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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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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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