When you look in your mind you find it covered with a lot of rubbishy thoughts.
AGNES MARTIN
I used to meditate until I learned to stop thinking.
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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When you look in your mind you find it covered with a lot of rubbishy thoughts.
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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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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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To progress in life you must give up the things you do not like.
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This is the attractiveness of artwork. It is adventurous, strenuous and joyful.
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I paint with my back to the world
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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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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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The adventurous state of mind is a high house… The joy of adventure is unaccountable.
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That which takes us by surprise-moments of happiness-that is inspiration.
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I think our minds respond to things beyond this world. Take beauty: it’s a very mysterious thing, isn’t it?
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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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We all have the same concern, but the artist must know exactly what the experience is. He must pursue the truth relentlessly
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