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
AGNES MARTINI 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.
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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Happiness is being on the beam with life – to feel the pull of life
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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 think our minds respond to things beyond this world. Take beauty: it’s a very mysterious thing, isn’t it?
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What we really want to do is serve happiness. We want everyone to be happy, never unhappy even for a moment. We want the animals to be happy.
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I used to meditate until I learned to stop thinking.
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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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The happiness of every living thing is what we want.
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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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To progress in life you must give up the things you do not like.
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Fulfill your potential. That’s the way to happiness.
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I would like my work to be recognized as being in the classical tradition (Coptic, Egyptian, Greek, Chinese), as representing the Ideal in the mind. Classical art cannot possibly be eclectic.
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This is the attractiveness of artwork. It is adventurous, strenuous and joyful.
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Anything can be painted without representation.
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Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.
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Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye, it is in the mind.
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