I often paint tranquility. If you stop thinking and rest, then a little happiness comes into your mind. At perfect rest you are comfortable.
AGNES MARTINBeauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye, it is in the mind.
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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Happiness is being on the beam with life – to feel the pull of life
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Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.
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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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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 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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One must see the ideal in one’s own mind. It is like a memory – an awareness -of perfection.
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I used to meditate until I learned to stop thinking.
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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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Fulfill your potential. That’s the way to happiness.
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Give up doing the things that you do not like to do.
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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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It would be an endless battle if it were all up to ego because it does not destroy and is not destroyed by itself It is like a wave it makes itself up,It rushes forward getting nowhere really it crashes
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I think everyone sees beauty. Art is a way to respond
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The worst thing you can think about when you’re working is yourself.
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