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
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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One must see the ideal in one’s own mind. It is like a memory – an awareness -of perfection.
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You can’t make a perfect painting. We can see perfection in our minds. But we can’t make a perfect painting.
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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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I often paint tranquility. If you stop thinking and rest, then a little happiness comes into your mind. At perfect rest you are comfortable.
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Happiness is being on the beam with life – to feel the pull of life
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It is commonly thought that everything that is can be put into words.
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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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This is the attractiveness of artwork. It is adventurous, strenuous and joyful.
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Doing what you were born to do … That’s the way to be happy.
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I’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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Nature is like parting a curtain, you go into it …. as you would cross an empty beach to look at the ocean.
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The artist works by awareness of his own state of mind.
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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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My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They’re just horizontal lines.
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You must find the things that you do like. The things that are acceptable to your mind.
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Anything can be painted without representation.
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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
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Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.
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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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There’s not any hint of nature. And still everybody responds, I think.
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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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The adventurous state of mind is a high house… The joy of adventure is unaccountable.
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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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I think everyone sees beauty. Art is a way to respond
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To progress in life you must give up the things you do not like.
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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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