Beauty and happiness and life are all the same and they are pervasive, unattached and abstract and they are our only concern.
AGNES MARTINGive up doing the things that you do not like to do.
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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Fulfill your potential. That’s the way to happiness.
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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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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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Give up doing the things that you do not like to do.
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There’s not any hint of nature. And still everybody responds, I think.
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When you look in your mind you find it covered with a lot of rubbishy thoughts.
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The worst thing you can think about when you’re working is yourself.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Happiness is being on the beam with life – to feel the pull of life
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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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