To progress in life you must give up the things you do not like.
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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My paintings are not about what is seen. They are about what is known forever in the mind.
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I used to meditate until I learned to stop thinking.
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Happiness is being on the beam with life – to feel the pull of life
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Doing what you were born to do … That’s the way to be happy.
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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 can’t make a perfect painting. We can see perfection in our minds. But we can’t make a perfect painting.
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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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They are immeasurable, completely lacking in substance. They are perfect and sublime. This is the subject matter of art.
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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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When I first made a grid I happened to be thinking of the innocence of trees and then this grid came into my mind and I thought it represented innocence, and I still do, and so I painted it and then I was satisfied. I thought, this is my vision.
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The adventurous state of mind is a high house… The joy of adventure is unaccountable.
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When I think of art I think of beauty. Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye it is in the mind. In our minds there is awareness of perfection.
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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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That which takes us by surprise-moments of happiness-that is inspiration.
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When you look in your mind you find it covered with a lot of rubbishy thoughts.
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