Doing what you were born to do … That’s the way to be happy.
AGNES MARTINThat which takes us by surprise-moments of happiness-that is inspiration.
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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That which takes us by surprise-moments of happiness-that is inspiration.
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Fulfill your potential. That’s the way to happiness.
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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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The artist works by awareness of his own state of mind.
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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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This is the attractiveness of artwork. It is adventurous, strenuous and joyful.
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I’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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Happiness is being on the beam with life – to feel the pull of life
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I once taught art to adults in a night course. I had a woman who painted her back yard, and she said it was the first time she had ever really looked at it. I think everyone sees beauty. Art is a way to respond
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The worst thing you can think about when you’re working is yourself.
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When I think of art I think of beauty. Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye it is in the mind. In our minds there is awareness of perfection.
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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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When you look in your mind you find it covered with a lot of rubbishy thoughts.
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I want to emphasize the fact that we all have the same experience and the same concern, but the artist must know exactly what the experience is. He must pursue the truth relentlessly.
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