Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye, it is in the mind.
AGNES MARTINI think it’s a response in our minds to perfection. It’s too bad, people not realizing that their minds expand beyond this world.
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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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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I want to emphasize the fact that we all have the same experience and the same concern, but the artist must know exactly what the experience is. He must pursue the truth relentlessly.
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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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Fulfill your potential. That’s the way to happiness.
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Inspiration is there all the time. For everyone whose mind is not clouded over with thoughts whether they realize it or not.
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This is the attractiveness of artwork. It is adventurous, strenuous and joyful.
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Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.
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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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One must see the ideal in one’s own mind. It is like a memory – an awareness -of perfection.
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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 enormous pitfall is devotion to oneself instead of to life. All works that are self-devoted are absolutely ineffective.
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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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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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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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