Happiness is being on the beam with life – to feel the pull of life
AGNES MARTINYou have to penetrate these and hear what your mind is telling you to do. Such work is original work.
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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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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To progress in life you must give up the things you do not like.
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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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My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They’re just horizontal lines.
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The happiness of every living thing is what we want.
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The adventurous state of mind is a high house… The joy of adventure is unaccountable.
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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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Anything can be painted without representation.
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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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We all have the same concern, but the artist must know exactly what the experience is. He must pursue the truth relentlessly
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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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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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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 used to meditate until I learned to stop thinking.
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The enormous pitfall is devotion to oneself instead of to life. All works that are self-devoted are absolutely ineffective.
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