Doing what you were born to do … That’s the way to be happy.
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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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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It’s not about facts, it’s about feelings. It’s about remembering feelings and happiness.
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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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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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I’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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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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Happiness is being on the beam with life – to feel the pull of life
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When you look in your mind you find it covered with a lot of rubbishy thoughts.
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To progress in life you must give up the things you do not like.
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Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye, it is in the mind.
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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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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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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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I used to meditate until I learned to stop thinking.
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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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