Fulfill your potential. That’s the way to happiness.
AGNES MARTINAny material may be used but the theme is the same and the response is the same for all artwork.
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 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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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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You have to penetrate these and hear what your mind is telling you to do. Such work is original work.
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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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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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Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye, it is in the mind.
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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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My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They’re just horizontal lines.
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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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Give up doing the things that you do not like to do.
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The happiness of every living thing is what we want.
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The worst thing you can think about when you’re working is yourself.
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I’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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Doing what you were born to do … That’s the way to be happy.
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