I’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
AGNES MARTINWhen you look in your mind you find it covered with a lot of rubbishy thoughts.
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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A definition of art is that it makes concrete our most subtle emotions. I think the highest form of art is music. It’s the most abstract of all art expression.
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I think everyone sees beauty. Art is a way to respond
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The happiness of every living thing is what we want.
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Any material may be used but the theme is the same and the response is the same for all artwork.
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That which takes us by surprise-moments of happiness-that is inspiration.
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Withdraws and makes itself up again pulls itself together with pride towers with pride rushes forward into imaginary conquest crashes in frustration withdraws with remorse and repentance pulls itself together with new resolution
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My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They’re just horizontal lines.
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I paint with my back to the world
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There’s not any hint of nature. And still everybody responds, I think.
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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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Pollock was terrific. I think he freed himself of all kinds of worry about this world. Ran around and dripped, and then he managed to express ecstasy.
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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 worst thing you can think about when you’re working is yourself.
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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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Doing what you were born to do … That’s the way to be happy.
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