Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye, it is in the mind.
AGNES MARTINThe happiness of every living thing is what we want.
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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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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I think everyone sees beauty. Art is a way to respond
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Anything can be painted without representation.
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I’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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I’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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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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One must see the ideal in one’s own mind. It is like a memory – an awareness -of perfection.
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That which takes us by surprise-moments of happiness-that is inspiration.
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This is the attractiveness of artwork. It is adventurous, strenuous and joyful.
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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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Doing what you were born to do … That’s the way to be happy.
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Fulfill your potential. That’s the way to happiness.
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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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I used to meditate until I learned to stop thinking.
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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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