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One must see the ideal in one’s own mind. It is like a memory – an awareness -of perfection.

Agnes Martin

I’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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Careful Idea Inaccurate
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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Battle Destroy Destroyed Ego Endless Frustration Life Pride
Doing what you were born to do … That’s the way to be happy.
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Born Doing Happy Way
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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Favour Idea Idealist Minimalist Minimise Themselves Want
I’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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Careful Idea Inaccurate
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.
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First Grid Happenedm Innocense Made Mind Satisfy Think Thinking Tree
There’s nobody living who couldn’t stand all afternoon in front of a waterfall …. Anyone who can sit on a stone in a field awhile can see my painting.
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Afternoon Beach Front Living Nature Nobody Ocean Stand Waterfall
There’s not any hint of nature. And still everybody responds, I think.
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Everybody Hint Nature Respond Think
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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Art Classical Memories Perfection Tradition
I think everyone sees beauty. Art is a way to respond
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Art Beauty Everyone Respond See Way
When you look in your mind you find it covered with a lot of rubbishy thoughts.
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Covered Look Looking Mind Rubbishy Thought
Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.
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Art Emotion Feeling Representation Subtle
The manipulation of materials in an artwork is a result of this state of mind.
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Artwork Manipulation Material Mind Result State
Fulfill your potential. That’s the way to happiness.
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Fulfill Happiness Potential Way
It is commonly thought that everything that is can be put into words.
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Commonly Everything Put Thought Word
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
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Adult Art Course Night Once Taught Think Thinking

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