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Mind Quotes by Agnes Martin
- The adventurous state of mind is a high house... The joy of adventure is unaccountable. This is the attractiveness of artwork. It is adventurous, strenuous…
- You can't make a perfect painting. We can see perfection in our minds. But we can't make a perfect painting.
- 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…
- 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…
- I think our minds respond to things beyond this world. Take beauty: it's a very mysterious thing, isn't it? I think it's a response in…
- 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 would like my work to be recognized as being in the classical tradition (Coptic, Egyptian, Greek, Chinese), as representing the Ideal in the mind.…
- I often paint tranquility. If you stop thinking and rest, then a little happiness comes into your mind. At perfect rest you are comfortable.
- Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye, it is in the mind.
- When you look in your mind you find it covered with a lot of rubbishy thoughts. You have to penetrate these and hear what your…
- Inspiration is there all the time. For everyone whose mind is not clouded over with thoughts whether they realize it or not.
- My paintings are not about what is seen. They are about what is known forever in the mind.
- To progress in life you must give up the things you do not like. Give up doing the things that you do not like to…
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- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and… — Pietro Aretino
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. — Aristophanes
- It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. — Aristotle
- You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. — Aristotle
- Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind. — Aristotle
- The energy of the mind is the essence of life. — Aristotle
- All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind. — Aristotle
- Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind… — Aristotle