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.
AGNES MARTINThe happiness of every living thing is what we want.
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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Happiness is being on the beam with life – to feel the pull of life
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The happiness of every living thing is what we want.
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When you look in your mind you find it covered with a lot of rubbishy thoughts.
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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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Doing what you were born to do … That’s the way to be happy.
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The artist works by awareness of his own state of mind.
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It would be an endless battle if it were all up to ego because it does not destroy and is not destroyed by itself It is like a wave it makes itself up,It rushes forward getting nowhere really it crashes
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I used to meditate until I learned to stop thinking.
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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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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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They are immeasurable, completely lacking in substance. They are perfect and sublime. This is the subject matter of art.
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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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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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My paintings are not about what is seen. They are about what is known forever in the mind.
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