Give up doing the things that you do not like to do.
AGNES MARTINWe all have the same concern, but the artist must know exactly what the experience is. He must pursue the truth relentlessly
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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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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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 used to meditate until I learned to stop thinking.
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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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The manipulation of materials in an artwork is a result of this state of mind.
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The artist works by awareness of his own state of mind.
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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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It’s not about facts, it’s about feelings. It’s about remembering feelings and happiness.
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Any material may be used but the theme is the same and the response is the same for all artwork.
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That which takes us by surprise-moments of happiness-that is inspiration.
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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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The happiness of every living thing is what we want.
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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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One must see the ideal in one’s own mind. It is like a memory – an awareness -of perfection.
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