I paint with my back to the world
AGNES MARTINThe happiness of every living thing is what we want.
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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When you look in your mind you find it covered with a lot of rubbishy thoughts.
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That which takes us by surprise-moments of happiness-that is inspiration.
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I’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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The worst thing you can think about when you’re working is yourself.
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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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Happiness is being on the beam with life – to feel the pull of life
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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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It’s through discipline and tremendous disappointment and failure that you arrive at what it is you must paint.
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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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I used to meditate until I learned to stop thinking.
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This is the attractiveness of artwork. It is adventurous, strenuous and joyful.
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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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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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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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Pollock was terrific. I think he freed himself of all kinds of worry about this world. Ran around and dripped, and then he managed to express ecstasy.
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