Quotes by Thinking When I get back into the city, it doesn't matter where you plop me down, I have my friends around me and I feel so blessed. I think we all just love to be together and there are just not enough reasons to be together. Agathe Snow citiesblessedthinking For me personally, I think I just enjoy movies about werewolves or vampires because it's not like an everyday thing. It's something you can really escape into. Underworld I'm a huge fan of because it's a great love story, but at the same time when it comes to vampires and werewolves it's just such a fantasy. It has everything involved in it. Action, it's sexy, it's interesting, there's just so many things involved in it that make it so cool. Agnes Bruckner sexyinterestingthinking People who think of children's nudity as a tool don't need freedom of expression. Agnes Chan expressionchildrenthinking What have we got here in America that we believe we cannot live without? We have the most varied and imaginative bathrooms in the world, we have kitchens with the most gimmicks, we have houses with every possible electrical gadget to save ourselves all kinds of trouble - all so that we can have leisure. Leisure, leisure, leisure! So that we don't go mad in the leisure, we have color TV. So that there will never, never, be a moment of silence, we have radio and Muzak. We can't stand silence, because silence includes thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves. Agnes de Mille colorbelievethinking I learned three important things in college-to use a library, to memorize quickly and visually, to drop asleep at any time given a horizontal surface and fifteen minutes. What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule. Agnes de Mille collegeinspirationalthinking We can't stand silence, because silence induces thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves. Agnes de Mille silencefacesthinking One of the good things about my having some recognition is that I can do something for the people I think ought to have more and correct some of the matters fate fails to take care of. Agnes de Mille fatepeoplethinking Public art existed all along, but ecological art just naturally grew out of my thinking and writings in that area for years. I didn't get involved in it; I started what then became a movement. Agnes Denes writingartthinking People have too many problems during the day; they don't want to think. Agnes Denes wantpeoplethinking Philosophy gets its ugly head into everything, but I don't think we live philosophy anymore. It's done. Agnes Denes donephilosophythinking Thinking has an understructure and underpinnings. Agnes Denes thinking It's not about facts, it's about feelings. It's about remembering feelings and happiness. A definition of art is that it makes concrete our most subtle emotions. I think the highest form of art is music. It's the most abstract of all art expression. Agnes Martin happinessartthinking 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. Agnes Martin mindtreethinking 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 Agnes Martin nightartthinking 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 Martin perfectmindthinking The worst thing you can think about when you're working is yourself. Agnes Martin worst-thingsworstthinking My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They're just horizontal lines. There's not any hint of nature. And still everybody responds, I think. Agnes Martin hintsartthinking I used to meditate until I learned to stop thinking. Agnes Martin usedthinking 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 our minds to perfection. It's too bad, people not realizing that their minds expand beyond this world. Agnes Martin mysterious-thingsbeautythinking 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. Agnes Martin beautyartthinking«4142434445464748495051»
