I used to meditate until I learned to stop thinking.
AGNES MARTINThere’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.
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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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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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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When you look in your mind you find it covered with a lot of rubbishy thoughts.
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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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One must see the ideal in one’s own mind. It is like a memory – an awareness -of perfection.
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I paint with my back to the world
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Anything can be painted without representation.
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Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.
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That which takes us by surprise-moments of happiness-that is inspiration.
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The adventurous state of mind is a high house… The joy of adventure is unaccountable.
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The happiness of every living thing is what we want.
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I think everyone sees beauty. Art is a way to respond
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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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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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