Happiness is being on the beam with life – to feel the pull of life
AGNES MARTINThat which takes us by surprise-moments of happiness-that is inspiration.
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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There’s not any hint of nature. And still everybody responds, I think.
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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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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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I used to meditate until I learned to stop thinking.
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Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.
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It’s through discipline and tremendous disappointment and failure that you arrive at what it is you must paint.
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I’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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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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One must see the ideal in one’s own mind. It is like a memory – an awareness -of perfection.
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You must find the things that you do like. The things that are acceptable to your mind.
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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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When I first made a grid I happened to be thinking of the innocence of trees and then this grid came into my mind and I thought it represented innocence, and I still do, and so I painted it and then I was satisfied. I thought, this is my vision.
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It’s not about facts, it’s about feelings. It’s about remembering feelings and happiness.
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I think everyone sees beauty. Art is a way to respond
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The happiness of every living thing is what we want.
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