We all have the same concern, but the artist must know exactly what the experience is. He must pursue the truth relentlessly
AGNES MARTINIt is commonly thought that everything that is can be put into words.
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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I’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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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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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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When I think of art I think of beauty. Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye it is in the mind. In our minds there is awareness of perfection.
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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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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 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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Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.
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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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This is the attractiveness of artwork. It is adventurous, strenuous and joyful.
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It’s not about facts, it’s about feelings. It’s about remembering feelings and happiness.
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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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It’s through discipline and tremendous disappointment and failure that you arrive at what it is you must paint.
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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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I’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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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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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 artist works by awareness of his own state of mind.
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There’s not any hint of nature. And still everybody responds, I think.
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Beauty and happiness and life are all the same and they are pervasive, unattached and abstract and they are our only concern.
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You must find the things that you do like. The things that are acceptable to your mind.
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The happiness of every living thing is what we want.
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I think everyone sees beauty. Art is a way to respond
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It is commonly thought that everything that is can be put into words.
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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.
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