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.
AGNES MARTINOne must see the ideal in one’s own mind. It is like a memory – an awareness -of perfection.
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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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It’s through discipline and tremendous disappointment and failure that you arrive at what it is you must paint.
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When you look in your mind you find it covered with a lot of rubbishy thoughts.
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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 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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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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I want to say that they are not what they seem to be. I want to say that all that seems like fantastic mistakes are not mistake.
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I think everyone sees beauty. Art is a way to respond
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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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There’s not any hint of nature. And still everybody responds, I think.
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The worst thing you can think about when you’re working is yourself.
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That which takes us by surprise-moments of happiness-that is inspiration.
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Happiness is being on the beam with life – to feel the pull of life
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This is the attractiveness of artwork. It is adventurous, strenuous and joyful.
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Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye, it is in the mind.
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