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.
AGNES MARTINI’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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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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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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One must see the ideal in one’s own mind. It is like a memory – an awareness -of perfection.
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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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When you look in your mind you find it covered with a lot of rubbishy thoughts.
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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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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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Doing what you were born to do … That’s the way to be happy.
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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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The artist works by awareness of his own state of mind.
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I’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye, it is in the mind.
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My paintings are not about what is seen. They are about what is known forever in the mind.
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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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