They are immeasurable, completely lacking in substance. They are perfect and sublime. This is the subject matter of art.
AGNES MARTINFulfill your potential. That’s the way to happiness.
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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I think it’s a response in our minds to perfection. It’s too bad, people not realizing that their minds expand beyond this world.
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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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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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My paintings are not about what is seen. They are about what is known forever in the mind.
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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’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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Happiness is being on the beam with life – to feel the pull of life
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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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That which takes us by surprise-moments of happiness-that is inspiration.
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The worst thing you can think about when you’re working is yourself.
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This is the attractiveness of artwork. It is adventurous, strenuous and joyful.
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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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Anything can be painted without representation.
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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 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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