Fulfill your potential. That’s the way to happiness.
AGNES MARTINThere’s not any hint of nature. And still everybody responds, I think.
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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The artist works by awareness of his own state of mind.
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The Minimalists are idealist. They want to minimise themselves in favour of the ideal. But I just can’t. You see, my paintings are not cool.
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The adventurous state of mind is a high house… The joy of adventure is unaccountable.
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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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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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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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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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One must see the ideal in one’s own mind. It is like a memory – an awareness -of perfection.
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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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The enormous pitfall is devotion to oneself instead of to life. All works that are self-devoted are absolutely ineffective.
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My paintings are not about what is seen. They are about what is known forever in the mind.
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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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I’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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There’s not any hint of nature. And still everybody responds, I think.
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