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.
AGNES MARTINWe 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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This is the attractiveness of artwork. It is adventurous, strenuous and joyful.
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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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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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Doing what you were born to do … That’s the way to be happy.
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I think everyone sees beauty. Art is a way to respond
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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 adventurous state of mind is a high house… The joy of adventure is unaccountable.
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To progress in life you must give up the things you do not like.
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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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When you look in your mind you find it covered with a lot of rubbishy thoughts.
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There’s nobody living who couldn’t stand all afternoon in front of a waterfall …. Anyone who can sit on a stone in a field awhile can see my 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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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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Fulfill your potential. That’s the way to happiness.
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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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