Happiness is being on the beam with life – to feel the pull of life
AGNES MARTINThis is the attractiveness of artwork. It is adventurous, strenuous and joyful.
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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Any material may be used but the theme is the same and the response is the same for all artwork.
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Doing what you were born to do … That’s the way to be happy.
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Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.
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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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Fulfill your potential. That’s the way to happiness.
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I’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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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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The Minimalists are idealist. They want to minimise themselves in favour of the ideal. But I just can’t. You see, my paintings are not cool.
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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 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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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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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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I 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.
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When you look in your mind you find it covered with a lot of rubbishy thoughts.
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That which takes us by surprise-moments of happiness-that is inspiration.
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