The happiness of every living thing is what we want.
AGNES MARTINFulfill your potential. That’s the way to happiness.
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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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 paint with my back to the world
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Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.
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The worst thing you can think about when you’re working is yourself.
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A definition of art is that it makes concrete our most subtle emotions. I think the highest form of art is music. It’s the most abstract of all art expression.
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I think our minds respond to things beyond this world. Take beauty: it’s a very mysterious thing, isn’t it?
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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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When you look in your mind you find it covered with a lot of rubbishy thoughts.
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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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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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One must see the ideal in one’s own mind. It is like a memory – an awareness -of perfection.
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Fulfill your potential. That’s the way to happiness.
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This is the attractiveness of artwork. It is adventurous, strenuous and joyful.
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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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