When you look in your mind you find it covered with a lot of rubbishy thoughts.
AGNES MARTINIt’s through discipline and tremendous disappointment and failure that you arrive at what it is you must paint.
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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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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The artist works by awareness of his own state of mind.
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Give up doing the things that you do not like to do.
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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 paintings are very far from being perfect – completely removed in fact – even as we ourselves are.
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There’s not any hint of nature. And still everybody responds, I think.
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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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It’s through discipline and tremendous disappointment and failure that you arrive at what it is you must paint.
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This is the attractiveness of artwork. It is adventurous, strenuous and joyful.
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I often paint tranquility. If you stop thinking and rest, then a little happiness comes into your mind. At perfect rest you are comfortable.
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It’s not about facts, it’s about feelings. It’s about remembering feelings and happiness.
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I’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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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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Fulfill your potential. That’s the way to happiness.
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One must see the ideal in one’s own mind. It is like a memory – an awareness -of perfection.
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The adventurous state of mind is a high house… The joy of adventure is unaccountable.
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