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 MARTINIt 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
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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My paintings are not about what is seen. They are about what is known forever in the 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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I think everyone sees beauty. Art is a way to respond
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The worst thing you can think about when you’re working is yourself.
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Beauty and happiness and life are all the same and they are pervasive, unattached and abstract and they are our only concern.
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The manipulation of materials in an artwork is a result of this state of mind.
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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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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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I paint with my back to the world
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That which takes us by surprise-moments of happiness-that is inspiration.
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To progress in life you must give up the things you do not like.
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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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Fulfill your potential. That’s the way to happiness.
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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. Classical art cannot possibly be eclectic.
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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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