I think everyone sees beauty. Art is a way to respond
AGNES MARTINI often paint tranquility. If you stop thinking and rest, then a little happiness comes into your mind. At perfect rest you are comfortable.
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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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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Any material may be used but the theme is the same and the response is the same for all artwork.
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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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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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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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The adventurous state of mind is a high house… The joy of adventure is unaccountable.
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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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I used to meditate until I learned to stop thinking.
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Doing what you were born to do … That’s the way to be happy.
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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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It’s through discipline and tremendous disappointment and failure that you arrive at what it is you must paint.
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The worst thing you can think about when you’re working is yourself.
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Happiness is being on the beam with life – to feel the pull of life
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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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Give up doing the things that you do not like to do.
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