Inspiration is there all the time. For everyone whose mind is not clouded over with thoughts whether they realize it or not.
AGNES MARTINThe adventurous state of mind is a high house… The joy of adventure is unaccountable.
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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You have to penetrate these and hear what your mind is telling you to do. Such work is original work.
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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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My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They’re just horizontal lines.
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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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Give up doing the things that you do not like to do.
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Fulfill your potential. That’s the way to happiness.
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The artist works by awareness of his own state of mind.
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There’s not any hint of nature. And still everybody responds, I think.
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Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.
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Pollock was terrific. I think he freed himself of all kinds of worry about this world. Ran around and dripped, and then he managed to express ecstasy.
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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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Anything can be painted without representation.
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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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The enormous pitfall is devotion to oneself instead of to life. All works that are self-devoted are absolutely ineffective.
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It’s not about facts, it’s about feelings. It’s about remembering feelings and happiness.
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