It’s not about facts, it’s about feelings. It’s about remembering feelings and happiness.
AGNES MARTINThat which takes us by surprise-moments of happiness-that is inspiration.
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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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 artist works by awareness of his own state of mind.
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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’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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Fulfill your potential. That’s the way to happiness.
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The worst thing you can think about when you’re working is yourself.
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This is the attractiveness of artwork. It is adventurous, strenuous and joyful.
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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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The happiness of every living thing is what we want.
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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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I want to say that they are not what they seem to be. I want to say that all that seems like fantastic mistakes are not mistake.
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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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Withdraws and makes itself up again pulls itself together with pride towers with pride rushes forward into imaginary conquest crashes in frustration withdraws with remorse and repentance pulls itself together with new resolution
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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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It is commonly thought that everything that is can be put into words.
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