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
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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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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Fulfill your potential. That’s the way to happiness.
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I paint with my back to the world
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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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One must see the ideal in one’s own mind. It is like a memory – an awareness -of perfection.
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The happiness of every living thing is what we want.
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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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All that seems like error is not error; and it all has to be done. That which seems like a false step is the next step.
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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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Doing what you were born to do … That’s the way to be happy.
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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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Inspiration is there all the time. For everyone whose mind is not clouded over with thoughts whether they realize it or not.
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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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To progress in life you must give up the things you do not like.
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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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