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.
AGNES MARTINOnce he sees this fact his feet are on the path. If you want to know the truth you will know it.
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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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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It’s through discipline and tremendous disappointment and failure that you arrive at what it is you must paint.
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The artist works by awareness of his own state of mind.
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Anything can be painted without representation.
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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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The happiness of every living thing is what we want.
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I paint with my back to the world
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What we really want to do is serve happiness. We want everyone to be happy, never unhappy even for a moment. We want the animals to be happy.
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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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The worst thing you can think about when you’re working is yourself.
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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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You can’t make a perfect painting. We can see perfection in our minds. But we can’t make a perfect painting.
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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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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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They are immeasurable, completely lacking in substance. They are perfect and sublime. This is the subject matter of art.
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