I often paint tranquility. If you stop thinking and rest, then a little happiness comes into your mind. At perfect rest you are comfortable.
AGNES MARTINWhat 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.
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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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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I want to emphasize the fact that we all have the same experience and the same concern, but the artist must know exactly what the experience is. He must pursue the truth relentlessly.
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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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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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The happiness of every living thing is what we want.
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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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Happiness is being on the beam with life – to feel the pull of life
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Pollock was terrific. I think he freed himself of all kinds of worry about this world. Ran around and dripped, and then he managed to express ecstasy.
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The adventurous state of mind is a high house… The joy of adventure is unaccountable.
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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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I paint with my back to the world
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The worst thing you can think about when you’re working is yourself.
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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 artist works by awareness of his own state of mind.
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