There’s not any hint of nature. And still everybody responds, I think.
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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The Minimalists are idealist. They want to minimise themselves in favour of the ideal. But I just can’t. You see, my paintings are not cool.
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Fulfill your potential. That’s the way to happiness.
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Anything can be painted without representation.
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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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I would like my work to be recognized as being in the classical tradition (Coptic, Egyptian, Greek, Chinese), as representing the Ideal in the mind. Classical art cannot possibly be eclectic.
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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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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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I think it’s a response in our minds to perfection. It’s too bad, people not realizing that their minds expand beyond this world.
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The artist works by awareness of his own state of mind.
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It’s not about facts, it’s about feelings. It’s about remembering feelings and happiness.
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Happiness is being on the beam with life – to feel the pull of life
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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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I paint with my back to the world
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I’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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