The happiness of every living thing is what we want.
AGNES MARTINI hope I have made it clear that the work is about perfection as we are aware of it in our minds but that the paintings are very far from being perfect – completely removed in fact – even as we ourselves are.
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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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 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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It’s not about facts, it’s about feelings. It’s about remembering feelings and happiness.
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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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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 through discipline and tremendous disappointment and failure that you arrive at what it is you must paint.
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I paint with my back to the world
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My paintings are not about what is seen. They are about what is known forever in the mind.
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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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Give up doing the things that you do not like to do.
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When you look in your mind you find it covered with a lot of rubbishy thoughts.
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Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.
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They are immeasurable, completely lacking in substance. They are perfect and sublime. This is the subject matter of art.
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Fulfill your potential. That’s the way to happiness.
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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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