Doing what you were born to do … That’s the way to be happy.
AGNES MARTINI used to meditate until I learned to stop thinking.
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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Fulfill your potential. That’s the way to happiness.
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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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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’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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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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I think everyone sees beauty. Art is a way to respond
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This is the attractiveness of artwork. It is adventurous, strenuous and joyful.
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I used to meditate until I learned to stop thinking.
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When you look in your mind you find it covered with a lot of rubbishy thoughts.
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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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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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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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You must find the things that you do like. The things that are acceptable to your mind.
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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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There’s not any hint of nature. And still everybody responds, I think.
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