I often paint tranquility. If you stop thinking and rest, then a little happiness comes into your mind. At perfect rest you are comfortable.
AGNES MARTINThere’s not any hint of nature. And still everybody responds, I think.
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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The enormous pitfall is devotion to oneself instead of to life. All works that are self-devoted are absolutely ineffective.
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You must find the things that you do like. The things that are acceptable to your mind.
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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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The happiness of every living thing is what we want.
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It’s not about facts, it’s about feelings. It’s about remembering feelings and happiness.
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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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The manipulation of materials in an artwork is a result of this state of mind.
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This is the attractiveness of artwork. It is adventurous, strenuous and joyful.
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Any material may be used but the theme is the same and the response is the same for all artwork.
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Fulfill your potential. That’s the way to happiness.
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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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When you look in your mind you find it covered with a lot of rubbishy thoughts.
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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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Happiness is being on the beam with life – to feel the pull of life
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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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