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They are immeasurable, completely lacking in substance. They are perfect and sublime. This is the subject matter of art.

Agnes Martin

The worst thing you can think about when you’re working is yourself.
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Think Thinking Working Worst Yourself
It is commonly thought that everything that is can be put into words.
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Commonly Everything Put Thought Word
My paintings are not about what is seen. They are about what is known forever in the mind.
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Forever Mind Painting Perception Seen
When I first made a grid I happened to be thinking of the innocence of trees and then this grid came into my mind and I thought it represented innocence, and I still do, and so I painted it and then I was satisfied. I thought, this is my vision.
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First Grid Happenedm Innocense Made Mind Satisfy Think Thinking Tree
I’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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Careful Idea Inaccurate
You must find the things that you do like. The things that are acceptable to your mind.
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Acceptable Find Mind Think Thinking
There’s not any hint of nature. And still everybody responds, I think.
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Everybody Hint Nature Respond Think
I used to meditate until I learned to stop thinking.
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Learned Mediate Think Thinking Used
The happiness of every living thing is what we want.
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Every Happiness Living Thing Want
They are immeasurable, completely lacking in substance. They are perfect and sublime. This is the subject matter of art.
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Art Completely Lacking Memory Perfect Subject Sublime Substance
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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Afternoon Beach Front Living Nature Nobody Ocean Stand Waterfall
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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Fact Feet Know Path Truth
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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Done Error False Next Seem Step
Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.
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Art Emotion Feeling Representation Subtle
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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Battle Destroy Destroyed Ego Endless Frustration Life Pride
Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye, it is in the mind.
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Beauty Eye Life Mind Mystery

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