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.
AGNES MARTINI’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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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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You have to penetrate these and hear what your mind is telling you to do. Such work is original work.
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The worst thing you can think about when you’re working is yourself.
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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.
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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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There’s not any hint of nature. And still everybody responds, I think.
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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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Once he sees this fact his feet are on the path. If you want to know the truth you will know it.
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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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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 mind. In our minds there is awareness of perfection.
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I’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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I want to emphasize the fact that we all have the same experience and the same concern, but the artist must know exactly what the experience is. He must pursue the truth relentlessly.
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This is the attractiveness of artwork. It is adventurous, strenuous and joyful.
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I think everyone sees beauty. Art is a way to respond
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