It’s not about facts, it’s about feelings. It’s about remembering feelings and happiness.
AGNES MARTINIt’s through discipline and tremendous disappointment and failure that you arrive at what it is you must paint.
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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This is the attractiveness of artwork. It is adventurous, strenuous and joyful.
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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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I’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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What I say is that we’re capable of a transcendent response, and I think it makes us happy. And I do think beauty produces a transcendent response.
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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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I’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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You must find the things that you do like. The things that are acceptable to your mind.
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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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I paint with my back to the world
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The happiness of every living thing is what we want.
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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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I used to meditate until I learned to stop thinking.
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Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.
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Happiness is being on the beam with life – to feel the pull of life
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