To progress in life you must give up the things you do not like.
AGNES MARTINFulfill your potential. That’s the way to happiness.
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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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 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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This is the attractiveness of artwork. It is adventurous, strenuous and joyful.
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The enormous pitfall is devotion to oneself instead of to life. All works that are self-devoted are absolutely ineffective.
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Happiness is being on the beam with life – to feel the pull of life
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That which takes us by surprise-moments of happiness-that is inspiration.
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I once taught art to adults in a night course. I had a woman who painted her back yard, and she said it was the first time she had ever really looked at it. I think everyone sees beauty. Art is a way to respond
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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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It’s through discipline and tremendous disappointment and failure that you arrive at what it is you must paint.
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There’s not any hint of nature. And still everybody responds, I think.
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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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I used to meditate until I learned to stop thinking.
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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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Anything can be painted without representation.
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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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