That which takes us by surprise-moments of happiness-that is inspiration.
AGNES MARTINThe happiness of every living thing is what we want.
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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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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The adventurous state of mind is a high house… The joy of adventure is unaccountable.
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Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.
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There’s nobody living who couldn’t stand all afternoon in front of a waterfall …. Anyone who can sit on a stone in a field awhile can see my painting.
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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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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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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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There’s not any hint of nature. And still everybody responds, I think.
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The worst thing you can think about when you’re working is yourself.
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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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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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Give up doing the things that you do not like to do.
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My paintings are not about what is seen. They are about what is known forever in the mind.
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It is commonly thought that everything that is can be put into words.
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