I often paint tranquility. If you stop thinking and rest, then a little happiness comes into your mind. At perfect rest you are comfortable.
AGNES MARTINThe happiness of every living thing is what we want.
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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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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The artist works by awareness of his own state of mind.
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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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Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.
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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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They are immeasurable, completely lacking in substance. They are perfect and sublime. This is the subject matter of art.
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I want to say that they are not what they seem to be. I want to say that all that seems like fantastic mistakes are not mistake.
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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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Inspiration is there all the time. For everyone whose mind is not clouded over with thoughts whether they realize it or not.
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The happiness of every living thing is what we want.
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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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Doing what you were born to do … That’s the way to be happy.
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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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To progress in life you must give up the things you do not like.
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It’s not about facts, it’s about feelings. It’s about remembering feelings and happiness.
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