Beauty and happiness and life are all the same and they are pervasive, unattached and abstract and they are our only concern.
AGNES MARTINBeauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye, it is in the mind.
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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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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Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye, it is in the mind.
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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 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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It’s not about facts, it’s about feelings. It’s about remembering feelings and happiness.
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Doing what you were born to do … That’s the way to be happy.
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I want to say that they are not what they seem to be. I want to say that all that seems like fantastic mistakes are not mistake.
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That which takes us by surprise-moments of happiness-that is inspiration.
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I want to emphasize the fact that we all have the same experience and the same concern, but the artist must know exactly what the experience is. He must pursue the truth relentlessly.
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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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One must see the ideal in one’s own mind. It is like a memory – an awareness -of perfection.
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Fulfill your potential. That’s the way to happiness.
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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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I think everyone sees beauty. Art is a way to respond
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I’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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