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.
AGNES MARTINThe happiness of every living thing is what we want.
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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I once taught art to adults in a night course. I had a woman who painted her back yard, and she said it was the first time she had ever really looked at it. I think everyone sees beauty. Art is a way to respond
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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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Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.
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I’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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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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My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They’re just horizontal lines.
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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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The Minimalists are idealist. They want to minimise themselves in favour of the ideal. But I just can’t. You see, my paintings are not cool.
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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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My paintings are not about what is seen. They are about what is known forever in the mind.
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Fulfill your potential. That’s the way to happiness.
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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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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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Happiness is being on the beam with life – to feel the pull of life
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