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This is the attractiveness of artwork. It is adventurous, strenuous and joyful.

Agnes Martin

There’s not any hint of nature. And still everybody responds, I think.
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Everybody Hint Nature Respond Think
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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Art Classical Memories Perfection Tradition
The adventurous state of mind is a high house… The joy of adventure is unaccountable.
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Adventure High House Joy Mind State
When you look in your mind you find it covered with a lot of rubbishy thoughts.
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Covered Look Looking Mind Rubbishy Thought
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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Abstract Art Beauty Happiness Perfect Pervasive Sublime Unattached
It’s not about facts, it’s about feelings. It’s about remembering feelings and happiness.
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Art Fact Feeling Happiness Remembering Thinking
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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Art Beauty Capable Happy Make Response Thinking Transcendent Transendemt
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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Beach Cross Curtain Empty Look Nature Ocean Painting
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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Concern Exactly Experience Pursue Relentlessly Same Truth
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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Art Mind Painting Perfect Perfection
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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Adult Art Course Night Once Taught Think Thinking
Fulfill your potential. That’s the way to happiness.
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Fulfill Happiness Potential Way
It’s through discipline and tremendous disappointment and failure that you arrive at what it is you must paint.
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Arrive Disappointment Discipline Failure Must Paint Through
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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Done Error False Next Seem Step
I’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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Careful Idea Inaccurate
Inspiration is there all the time. For everyone whose mind is not clouded over with thoughts whether they realize it or not.
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Closed Everyone Inspiration Mind Realizing Through Time

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