The worst thing you can think about when you’re working is yourself.
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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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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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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Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.
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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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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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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 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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What I say is that we’re capable of a transcendent response, and I think it makes us happy. And I do think beauty produces a transcendent response.
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It’s not about facts, it’s about feelings. It’s about remembering feelings and happiness.
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I’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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When I think of art I think of beauty. Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye it is in the mind. In our minds there is awareness of perfection.
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The adventurous state of mind is a high house… The joy of adventure is unaccountable.
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Doing what you were born to do … That’s the way to be happy.
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I think everyone sees beauty. Art is a way to respond
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My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They’re just horizontal lines.
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