It’s not about facts, it’s about feelings. It’s about remembering feelings and happiness.
AGNES MARTINWithdraws 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
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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The adventurous state of mind is a high house… The joy of adventure is unaccountable.
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There’s not any hint of nature. And still everybody responds, I think.
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I paint with my back to the world
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The artist works by awareness of his own state of mind.
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The enormous pitfall is devotion to oneself instead of to life. All works that are self-devoted are absolutely ineffective.
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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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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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The worst thing you can think about when you’re working is yourself.
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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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You have to penetrate these and hear what your mind is telling you to do. Such work is original work.
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I think everyone sees beauty. Art is a way to respond
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What we really want to do is serve happiness. We want everyone to be happy, never unhappy even for a moment. We want the animals to be happy.
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I think our minds respond to things beyond this world. Take beauty: it’s a very mysterious thing, isn’t it?
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Fulfill your potential. That’s the way to happiness.
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I think it’s a response in our minds to perfection. It’s too bad, people not realizing that their minds expand beyond this world.
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