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It’s through discipline and tremendous disappointment and failure that you arrive at what it is you must paint.

Agnes Martin

The worst thing you can think about when you’re working is yourself.
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Think Thinking Working Worst Yourself
Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye, it is in the mind.
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Beauty Eye Life Mind Mystery
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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Adult Art Course Night Once Taught Think Thinking
Any material may be used but the theme is the same and the response is the same for all artwork.
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Artist Artwork Material May Response Theme
My paintings are not about what is seen. They are about what is known forever in the mind.
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Forever Mind Painting Perception Seen
Fulfill your potential. That’s the way to happiness.
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Fulfill Happiness Potential Way
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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Art Mind Painting Perfect Perfection
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
I used to meditate until I learned to stop thinking.
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Learned Mediate Think Thinking Used
The adventurous state of mind is a high house… The joy of adventure is unaccountable.
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Adventure High House Joy Mind State
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
Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.
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Art Emotion Feeling Representation Subtle
I paint with my back to the world
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Back Paint World
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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Fantastic Like Mistake Seem Wanted
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
Doing what you were born to do … That’s the way to be happy.
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Born Doing Happy Way

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