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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.

Agnes Martin

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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Battle Destroy Destroyed Ego Endless Frustration Life Pride
Once he sees this fact his feet are on the path. If you want to know the truth you will know it.
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Fact Feet Know Path Truth
Fulfill your potential. That’s the way to happiness.
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Fulfill Happiness Potential Way
I hope I have made it clear that the work is about perfection as we are aware of it in our minds but that the paintings are very far from being perfect – completely removed in fact – even as we ourselves are.
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Art Aware Hope Made Mind Ourself Perfect Perfection
Anything can be painted without representation.
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Anything Painting Representation
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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Art Awareness Beauty Eye Life Mystery Perfection Think
To progress in life you must give up the things you do not like.
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Giving Life Like Mind Progress Thing Up
This is the attractiveness of artwork. It is adventurous, strenuous and joyful.
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Adventurous Artwork Attractiveness Joyful Stremous
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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First Grid Happenedm Innocense Made Mind Satisfy Think Thinking Tree
The artist works by awareness of his own state of mind.
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Artist Awareness Mind Own State Work
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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Abstract Concrete Definition Expression Form Make Music Subtitle
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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Done Error False Next Seem Step
My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They’re just horizontal lines.
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Art Certainly Hint Horizontal Life Nonobjective Painting Thinking
There’s not any hint of nature. And still everybody responds, I think.
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Everybody Hint Nature Respond Think
Give up doing the things that you do not like to do.
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Do Doing Give Like Thing
I often paint tranquility. If you stop thinking and rest, then a little happiness comes into your mind. At perfect rest you are comfortable.
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Happiness Mind Often Paint Perfect Stop Think Thinking Tranquility

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