I’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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I used to meditate until I learned to stop thinking.
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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I’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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I think everyone sees beauty. Art is a way to respond
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Doing what you were born to do … That’s the way to be happy.
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I would like my work to be recognized as being in the classical tradition (Coptic, Egyptian, Greek, Chinese), as representing the Ideal in the mind. Classical art cannot possibly be eclectic.
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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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My paintings are not about what is seen. They are about what is known forever in the mind.
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Fulfill your potential. That’s the way to happiness.
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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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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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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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My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They’re just horizontal lines.
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When you look in your mind you find it covered with a lot of rubbishy thoughts.
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It’s not about facts, it’s about feelings. It’s about remembering feelings and happiness.
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The artist works by awareness of his own state of mind.
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This is the attractiveness of artwork. It is adventurous, strenuous and joyful.
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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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