Any material may be used but the theme is the same and the response is the same for all artwork.
AGNES MARTINFulfill your potential. That’s the way to happiness.
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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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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The adventurous state of mind is a high house… The joy of adventure is unaccountable.
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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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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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I used to meditate until I learned to stop thinking.
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Beauty and happiness and life are all the same and they are pervasive, unattached and abstract and they are our only concern.
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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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You have to penetrate these and hear what your mind is telling you to do. Such work is original work.
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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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The worst thing you can think about when you’re working is yourself.
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Fulfill your potential. That’s the way to happiness.
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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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You must find the things that you do like. The things that are acceptable to your mind.
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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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Withdraws and makes itself up again pulls itself together with pride towers with pride rushes forward into imaginary conquest crashes in frustration withdraws with remorse and repentance pulls itself together with new resolution
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