When you look in your mind you find it covered with a lot of rubbishy thoughts.
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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It’s through discipline and tremendous disappointment and failure that you arrive at what it is you must paint.
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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 hope I have made it clear that the work is about perfection as we are aware of it in our minds but that the paintings are very far from being perfect – completely removed in fact – even as we ourselves are.
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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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Happiness is being on the beam with life – to feel the pull of life
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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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This is the attractiveness of artwork. It is adventurous, strenuous and joyful.
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Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye, it is in the mind.
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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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To progress in life you must give up the things you do not like.
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The happiness of every living thing is what we want.
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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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It is commonly thought that everything that is can be put into words.
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The artist works by awareness of his own state of mind.
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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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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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My paintings are not about what is seen. They are about what is known forever in the mind.
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I would like my work to be recognized as being in the classical tradition (Coptic, Egyptian, Greek, Chinese), as representing the Ideal in the mind. Classical art cannot possibly be eclectic.
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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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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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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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The adventurous state of mind is a high house… The joy of adventure is unaccountable.
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I paint with my back to the world
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The worst thing you can think about when you’re working is yourself.
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That which takes us by surprise-moments of happiness-that is inspiration.
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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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