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Inspiration is there all the time. For everyone whose mind is not clouded over with thoughts whether they realize it or not.

Agnes Martin

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
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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Art Beauty Capable Happy Make Response Thinking Transcendent Transendemt
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 think everyone sees beauty. Art is a way to respond
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Art Beauty Everyone Respond See Way
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
It is commonly thought that everything that is can be put into words.
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Commonly Everything Put Thought Word
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
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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Conquer Crashes Forward Make Pride Pull Repentance Tower Withdrawl
I’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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Careful Idea Inaccurate
I hope I have made it clear that the work is about perfection as we are aware of it in our minds but that the paintings are very far from being perfect – completely removed in fact – even as we ourselves are.
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Art Aware Hope Made Mind Ourself Perfect Perfection
I used to meditate until I learned to stop thinking.
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Learned Mediate Think Thinking Used
I think it’s a response in our minds to perfection. It’s too bad, people not realizing that their minds expand beyond this world.
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Beyond Expand Mind People Perfection Realizing Response World
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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Beach Cross Curtain Empty Look Nature Ocean Painting
Doing what you were born to do … That’s the way to be happy.
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Born Doing Happy Way
It’s not about facts, it’s about feelings. It’s about remembering feelings and happiness.
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Art Fact Feeling Happiness Remembering Thinking
That which takes us by surprise-moments of happiness-that is inspiration.
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Art Happiness Inspiration Moment Surprise Take

Inspiration is there all the time. For everyone whose mind is not clouded over with thoughts whether they realize it or not.

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