The worst thing you can think about when you’re working is yourself.
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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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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It’s not about facts, it’s about feelings. It’s about remembering feelings and happiness.
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It is commonly thought that everything that is can be put into words.
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When you look in your mind you find it covered with a lot of rubbishy thoughts.
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I often paint tranquility. If you stop thinking and rest, then a little happiness comes into your mind. At perfect rest you are comfortable.
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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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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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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 manipulation of materials in an artwork is a result of this state of mind.
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They are immeasurable, completely lacking in substance. They are perfect and sublime. This is the subject matter of art.
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That which takes us by surprise-moments of happiness-that is inspiration.
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The happiness of every living thing is what we want.
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Fulfill your potential. That’s the way to happiness.
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What I say is that we’re capable of a transcendent response, and I think it makes us happy. And I do think beauty produces a transcendent response.
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The artist works by awareness of his own state of mind.
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