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
AGNES MARTINI think our minds respond to things beyond this world. Take beauty: it’s a very mysterious thing, isn’t it?
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I want to emphasize the fact that we all have the same experience and the same concern, but the artist must know exactly what the experience is. He must pursue the truth relentlessly.
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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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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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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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This is the attractiveness of artwork. It is adventurous, strenuous and joyful.
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Fulfill your potential. That’s the way to happiness.
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We all have the same concern, but the artist must know exactly what the experience is. He must pursue the truth relentlessly
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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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Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.
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Anything can be painted without representation.
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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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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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Doing what you were born to do … That’s the way to be happy.
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I think everyone sees beauty. Art is a way to respond
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Nature is like parting a curtain, you go into it …. as you would cross an empty beach to look at the ocean.
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