It is commonly thought that everything that is can be put into words.
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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My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They’re just horizontal lines.
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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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Fulfill your potential. That’s the way to happiness.
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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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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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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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You have to penetrate these and hear what your mind is telling you to do. Such work is original work.
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Give up doing the things that you do not like to do.
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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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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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It’s not about facts, it’s about feelings. It’s about remembering feelings and happiness.
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The manipulation of materials in an artwork is a result of this state of mind.
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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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There’s not any hint of nature. And still everybody responds, I think.
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