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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That which takes us by surprise-moments of happiness-that is inspiration.
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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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Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.
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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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It’s not about facts, it’s about feelings. It’s about remembering feelings and happiness.
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Withdraws and makes itself up again pulls itself together with pride towers with pride rushes forward into imaginary conquest crashes in frustration withdraws with remorse and repentance pulls itself together with new resolution
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It is commonly thought that everything that is can be put into words.
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The happiness of every living thing is what we want.
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Fulfill your potential. That’s the way to happiness.
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The adventurous state of mind is a high house… The joy of adventure is unaccountable.
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I’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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I’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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When you look in your mind you find it covered with a lot of rubbishy thoughts.
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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.
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Doing what you were born to do … That’s the way to be happy.
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