Any material may be used but the theme is the same and the response is the same for all artwork.
AGNES MARTINThe happiness of every living thing is what we want.
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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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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The worst thing you can think about when you’re working is yourself.
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I think it’s a response in our minds to perfection. It’s too bad, people not realizing that their minds expand beyond this world.
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You have to penetrate these and hear what your mind is telling you to do. Such work is original work.
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Happiness is being on the beam with life – to feel the pull of life
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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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My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They’re just horizontal lines.
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Beauty and happiness and life are all the same and they are pervasive, unattached and abstract and they are our only concern.
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I’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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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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It is commonly thought that everything that is can be put into words.
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Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.
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Doing what you were born to do … That’s the way to be happy.
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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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Give up doing the things that you do not like to do.
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