To progress in life you must give up the things you do not like.
AGNES MARTINYou can’t make a perfect painting. We can see perfection in our minds. But we can’t make a perfect painting.
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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The Minimalists are idealist. They want to minimise themselves in favour of the ideal. But I just can’t. You see, my paintings are not cool.
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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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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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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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It’s not about facts, it’s about feelings. It’s about remembering feelings and happiness.
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The artist works by awareness of his own state of mind.
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This is the attractiveness of artwork. It is adventurous, strenuous and joyful.
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The happiness of every living thing is what we want.
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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 used to meditate until I learned to stop thinking.
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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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The worst thing you can think about when you’re working is yourself.
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I’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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Happiness is being on the beam with life – to feel the pull of life
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The adventurous state of mind is a high house… The joy of adventure is unaccountable.
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