You must find the things that you do like. The things that are acceptable to your mind.
AGNES MARTINThe adventurous state of mind is a high house… The joy of adventure is unaccountable.
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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I’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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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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It is commonly thought that everything that is can be put into words.
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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 used to meditate until I learned to stop thinking.
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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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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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The happiness of every living thing is what we want.
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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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I think our minds respond to things beyond this world. Take beauty: it’s a very mysterious thing, isn’t it?
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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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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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There’s nobody living who couldn’t stand all afternoon in front of a waterfall …. Anyone who can sit on a stone in a field awhile can see my painting.
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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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