I’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
AGNES MARTINArt is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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Fulfill your potential. That’s the way to happiness.
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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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I’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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That which takes us by surprise-moments of happiness-that is inspiration.
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It’s not about facts, it’s about feelings. It’s about remembering feelings and happiness.
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The adventurous state of mind is a high house… The joy of adventure is unaccountable.
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Happiness is being on the beam with life – to feel the pull of life
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Withdraws and makes itself up again pulls itself together with pride towers with pride rushes forward into imaginary conquest crashes in frustration withdraws with remorse and repentance pulls itself together with new resolution
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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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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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You must find the things that you do like. The things that are acceptable to your mind.
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Doing what you were born to do … That’s the way to be happy.
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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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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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To progress in life you must give up the things you do not like.
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