I often paint tranquility. If you stop thinking and rest, then a little happiness comes into your mind. At perfect rest you are comfortable.
AGNES MARTINPollock 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.
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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The happiness of every living thing is what we want.
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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 think everyone sees beauty. Art is a way to respond
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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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One must see the ideal in one’s own mind. It is like a memory – an awareness -of perfection.
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I want to emphasize the fact that we all have the same experience and the same concern, but the artist must know exactly what the experience is. He must pursue the truth relentlessly.
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I’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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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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My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They’re just horizontal lines.
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To progress in life you must give up the things you do not like.
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What I say is that we’re capable of a transcendent response, and I think it makes us happy. And I do think beauty produces a transcendent response.
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It is commonly thought that everything that is can be put into words.
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Fulfill your potential. That’s the way to happiness.
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The adventurous state of mind is a high house… The joy of adventure is unaccountable.
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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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