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There’s not any hint of nature. And still everybody responds, I think.

Agnes Martin

The adventurous state of mind is a high house… The joy of adventure is unaccountable.
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Adventure High House Joy Mind State
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
Doing what you were born to do … That’s the way to be happy.
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Born Doing Happy Way
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
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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Battle Destroy Destroyed Ego Endless Frustration Life Pride
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
This is the attractiveness of artwork. It is adventurous, strenuous and joyful.
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Adventurous Artwork Attractiveness Joyful Stremous
I paint with my back to the world
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Back Paint World
The artist works by awareness of his own state of mind.
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Artist Awareness Mind Own State Work
You must find the things that you do like. The things that are acceptable to your mind.
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Acceptable Find Mind Think Thinking
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
Anything can be painted without representation.
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Anything Painting Representation
Happiness is being on the beam with life – to feel the pull of life
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Beam Feel Happiness Life Pull
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
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
Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.
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Art Emotion Feeling Representation Subtle

There’s not any hint of nature. And still everybody responds, I think.

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