Fulfill your potential. That’s the way to happiness.
AGNES MARTINAnything can be painted without representation.
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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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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Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye, it is in the mind.
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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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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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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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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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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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My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They’re just horizontal lines.
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Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.
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This is the attractiveness of artwork. It is adventurous, strenuous and joyful.
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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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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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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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When I think of art I think of beauty. Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye it is in the mind. In our minds there is awareness of perfection.
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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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