You must find the things that you do like. The things that are acceptable to your mind.
AGNES MARTINBeauty and happiness and life are all the same and they are pervasive, unattached and abstract and they are our only concern.
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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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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To progress in life you must give up the things you do not like.
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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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Doing what you were born to do … That’s the way to be happy.
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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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My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They’re just horizontal lines.
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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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I think everyone sees beauty. Art is a way to respond
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All that seems like error is not error; and it all has to be done. That which seems like a false step is the next step.
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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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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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Happiness is being on the beam with life – to feel the pull of life
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Give up doing the things that you do not like to do.
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I paint with my back to the world
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It’s through discipline and tremendous disappointment and failure that you arrive at what it is you must paint.
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