There’s not any hint of nature. And still everybody responds, I think.
AGNES MARTINIt is commonly thought that everything that is can be put into words.
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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Doing what you were born to do … That’s the way 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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That which takes us by surprise-moments of happiness-that is inspiration.
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I used to meditate until I learned to stop thinking.
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Beauty and happiness and life are all the same and they are pervasive, unattached and abstract and they are our only concern.
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Fulfill your potential. That’s the way to happiness.
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This is the attractiveness of artwork. It is adventurous, strenuous and joyful.
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To progress in life you must give up the things you do not like.
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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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One must see the ideal in one’s own mind. It is like a memory – an awareness -of perfection.
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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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You have to penetrate these and hear what your mind is telling you to do. Such work is original work.
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The artist works by awareness of his own state of mind.
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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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When I think of art I think of beauty. Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye it is in the mind. In our minds there is awareness of perfection.
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