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Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.

Agnes Martin

It’s through discipline and tremendous disappointment and failure that you arrive at what it is you must paint.
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Arrive Disappointment Discipline Failure Must Paint Through
I used to meditate until I learned to stop thinking.
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Learned Mediate Think Thinking Used
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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Afternoon Beach Front Living Nature Nobody Ocean Stand Waterfall
I’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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Careful Idea Inaccurate
You must find the things that you do like. The things that are acceptable to your mind.
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Acceptable Find Mind Think Thinking
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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Happiness Mind Often Paint Perfect Stop Think Thinking Tranquility
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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Beach Cross Curtain Empty Look Nature Ocean Painting
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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Art Beauty Capable Happy Make Response Thinking Transcendent Transendemt
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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Battle Destroy Destroyed Ego Endless Frustration Life Pride
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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Art Awareness Beauty Eye Life Mystery Perfection Think
Happiness is being on the beam with life – to feel the pull of life
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Beam Feel Happiness Life Pull
This is the attractiveness of artwork. It is adventurous, strenuous and joyful.
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Adventurous Artwork Attractiveness Joyful Stremous
When you look in your mind you find it covered with a lot of rubbishy thoughts.
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Covered Look Looking Mind Rubbishy Thought
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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First Grid Happenedm Innocense Made Mind Satisfy Think Thinking Tree
A definition of art is that it makes concrete our most subtle emotions. I think the highest form of art is music. It’s the most abstract of all art expression.
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Abstract Concrete Definition Expression Form Make Music Subtitle
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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Fact Feet Know Path Truth

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