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
AGNES MARTINI’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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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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One must see the ideal in one’s own mind. It is like a memory – an awareness -of perfection.
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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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I think everyone sees beauty. Art is a way to respond
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It’s not about facts, it’s about feelings. It’s about remembering feelings and happiness.
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The artist works by awareness of his own state of mind.
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Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.
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The worst thing you can think about when you’re working is yourself.
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The adventurous state of mind is a high house… The joy of adventure is unaccountable.
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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
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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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Anything can be painted without representation.
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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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It’s through discipline and tremendous disappointment and failure that you arrive at what it is you must paint.
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Give up doing the things that you do not like to do.
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