It’s not about facts, it’s about feelings. It’s about remembering feelings and happiness.
AGNES MARTINDoing what you were born to do … That’s the way to be happy.
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They’re just horizontal lines.
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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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It is commonly thought that everything that is can be put into words.
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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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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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This is the attractiveness of artwork. It is adventurous, strenuous and joyful.
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I think everyone sees beauty. Art is a way to respond
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Pollock was terrific. I think he freed himself of all kinds of worry about this world. Ran around and dripped, and then he managed to express ecstasy.
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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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The adventurous state of mind is a high house… The joy of adventure is unaccountable.
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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 paint with my back to the world
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Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.
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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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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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