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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.

Agnes Martin

The happiness of every living thing is what we want.
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Every Happiness Living Thing Want
The enormous pitfall is devotion to oneself instead of to life. All works that are self-devoted are absolutely ineffective.
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Devotion Enormous Instead Life Oneself Pitfall Self
You can’t make a perfect painting. We can see perfection in our minds. But we can’t make a perfect painting.
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Art Mind Painting Perfect Perfection
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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Fact Feet Know Path Truth
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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Artist Concern Emphasize Exactly Experience Feet Mind Pursue Relentlessly Same
I would like my work to be recognized as being in the classical tradition (Coptic, Egyptian, Greek, Chinese), as representing the Ideal in the mind. Classical art cannot possibly be eclectic.
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Art Classical Memories Perfection Tradition
They are immeasurable, completely lacking in substance. They are perfect and sublime. This is the subject matter of art.
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Art Completely Lacking Memory Perfect Subject Sublime Substance
There’s nobody living who couldn’t stand all afternoon in front of a waterfall …. Anyone who can sit on a stone in a field awhile can see my painting.
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Afternoon Beach Front Living Nature Nobody Ocean Stand Waterfall
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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Animal Everyone Happiness Really Serve Unhappy Wanted
The worst thing you can think about when you’re working is yourself.
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Think Thinking Working Worst Yourself
When I first made a grid I happened to be thinking of the innocence of trees and then this grid came into my mind and I thought it represented innocence, and I still do, and so I painted it and then I was satisfied. I thought, this is my vision.
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First Grid Happenedm Innocense Made Mind Satisfy Think Thinking Tree
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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Happiness Mind Often Paint Perfect Stop Think Thinking Tranquility
When you look in your mind you find it covered with a lot of rubbishy thoughts.
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Covered Look Looking Mind Rubbishy Thought
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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Fantastic Like Mistake Seem Wanted
My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They’re just horizontal lines.
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Art Certainly Hint Horizontal Life Nonobjective Painting Thinking
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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Concern Exactly Experience Pursue Relentlessly Same Truth

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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