Happiness is being on the beam with life – to feel the pull of life
AGNES MARTINI’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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I want to say that they are not what they seem to be. I want to say that all that seems like fantastic mistakes are not mistake.
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The artist works by awareness of his own state of mind.
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I paint with my back to the world
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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 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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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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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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That which takes us by surprise-moments of happiness-that is inspiration.
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The worst thing you can think about when you’re working is yourself.
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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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You must find the things that you do like. The things that are acceptable to your mind.
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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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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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Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.
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To progress in life you must give up the things you do not like.
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