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
AGNES MARTINThe manipulation of materials in an artwork is a result of this state of mind.
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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Happiness is being on the beam with life – to feel the pull of life
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When you look in your mind you find it covered with a lot of rubbishy thoughts.
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Give up doing the things that you do not like to do.
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That which takes us by surprise-moments of happiness-that is inspiration.
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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 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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Fulfill your potential. That’s the way to happiness.
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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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To progress in life you must give up the things you do not like.
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I think it’s a response in our minds to perfection. It’s too bad, people not realizing that their minds expand beyond this world.
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Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.
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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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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’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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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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