Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.
AGNES MARTINThe happiness of every living thing is what we want.
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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This is the attractiveness of artwork. It is adventurous, strenuous and joyful.
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I’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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Give up doing the things that you do not like to do.
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The happiness of every living thing is what we want.
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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 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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It’s not about facts, it’s about feelings. It’s about remembering feelings and happiness.
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It is commonly thought that everything that is can be put into words.
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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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Fulfill your potential. That’s the way to happiness.
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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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A definition of art is that it makes concrete our most subtle emotions. I think the highest form of art is music. It’s the most abstract of all art expression.
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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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One must see the ideal in one’s own mind. It is like a memory – an awareness -of perfection.
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