I think our minds respond to things beyond this world. Take beauty: it’s a very mysterious thing, isn’t it?
AGNES MARTINI’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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Fulfill your potential. That’s the way to happiness.
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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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To progress in life you must give up the things you do not like.
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It’s not about facts, it’s about feelings. It’s about remembering feelings and happiness.
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Anything can be painted without representation.
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You can’t make a perfect painting. We can see perfection in our minds. But we can’t make a perfect painting.
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You have to penetrate these and hear what your mind is telling you to do. Such work is original work.
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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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Give up doing the things that you do not like to do.
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I think it’s a response in our minds to perfection. It’s too bad, people not realizing that their minds expand beyond this world.
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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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All that seems like error is not error; and it all has to be done. That which seems like a false step is the next step.
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The happiness of every living thing is what we want.
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When you look in your mind you find it covered with a lot of rubbishy thoughts.
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