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 used to meditate until I learned to stop thinking.
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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There’s not any hint of nature. And still everybody responds, I think.
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My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They’re just horizontal lines.
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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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Fulfill your potential. That’s the way to happiness.
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Inspiration is there all the time. For everyone whose mind is not clouded over with thoughts whether they realize it or not.
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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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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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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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Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.
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Happiness is being on the beam with life – to feel the pull of life
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This is the attractiveness of artwork. It is adventurous, strenuous and joyful.
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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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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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Any material may be used but the theme is the same and the response is the same for all artwork.
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Doing what you were born to do … That’s the way to be happy.
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