Fulfill your potential. That’s the way to happiness.
AGNES MARTINDoing what you were born to do … That’s the way to be happy.
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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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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The artist works by awareness of his own state of mind.
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I’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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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 think everyone sees beauty. Art is a way to respond
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The happiness of every living thing is what we want.
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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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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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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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The adventurous state of mind is a high house… The joy of adventure is unaccountable.
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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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Nature is like parting a curtain, you go into it …. as you would cross an empty beach to look at the ocean.
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This is the attractiveness of artwork. It is adventurous, strenuous and joyful.
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The manipulation of materials in an artwork is a result of this 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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