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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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.
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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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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You must find the things that you do like. The things that are acceptable to your mind.
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Any material may be used but the theme is the same and the response is the same for all artwork.
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Beauty and happiness and life are all the same and they are pervasive, unattached and abstract and they are our only concern.
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I hope I have made it clear that the work is about perfection as we are aware of it in our minds but that the paintings are very far from being perfect – completely removed in fact – even as we ourselves are.
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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’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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My paintings are not about what is seen. They are about what is known forever in the mind.
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The adventurous state of mind is a high house… The joy of adventure is unaccountable.
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Anything can be painted without representation.
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We all have the same concern, but the artist must know exactly what the experience is. He must pursue the truth relentlessly
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The worst thing you can think about when you’re working is yourself.
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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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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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