Fulfill your potential. That’s the way to happiness.
AGNES MARTINThe happiness of every living thing is what we want.
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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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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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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Give up doing the things that you do not like to do.
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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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Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.
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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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It’s not about facts, it’s about feelings. It’s about remembering feelings and 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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Doing what you were born to do … That’s the way to be happy.
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Withdraws and makes itself up again pulls itself together with pride towers with pride rushes forward into imaginary conquest crashes in frustration withdraws with remorse and repentance pulls itself together with new resolution
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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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The adventurous state of mind is a high house… The joy of adventure is unaccountable.
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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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I used to meditate until I learned to stop thinking.
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