Beauty and happiness and life are all the same and they are pervasive, unattached and abstract and they are our only concern.
AGNES MARTINThe artist works by awareness of his own state of mind.
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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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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Doing what you were born to do … That’s the way to be happy.
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There’s not any hint of nature. And still everybody responds, I think.
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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 think our minds respond to things beyond this world. Take beauty: it’s a very mysterious thing, isn’t it?
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Fulfill your potential. That’s the way to happiness.
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It’s not about facts, it’s about feelings. It’s about remembering feelings and happiness.
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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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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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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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It’s through discipline and tremendous disappointment and failure that you arrive at what it is you must paint.
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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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Give up doing the things that you do not like to do.
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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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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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