Iconic Painter Agnes Martin on Art, Solitude, and the Secret of Happiness
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Iconic Painter Agnes Martin on Art, Solitude, and the Secret of Happiness
Those only are happy (I thought) who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness; on the happiness of others, on the improvement of mankind, even on some art or pursuit, followed not as a means, but as itself an ideal end. Aiming thus at something else, they find happiness by the way.8
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