Give up doing the things that you do not like to do.
AGNES MARTINThe adventurous state of mind is a high house… The joy of adventure is unaccountable.
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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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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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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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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Doing what you were born to do … That’s the way to be happy.
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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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Any material may be used but the theme is the same and the response is the same for all artwork.
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Nature is like parting a curtain, you go into it …. as you would cross an empty beach to look at the ocean.
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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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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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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.
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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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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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They are immeasurable, completely lacking in substance. They are perfect and sublime. This is the subject matter of art.
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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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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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