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 enormous pitfall is devotion to oneself instead of to life. All works that are self-devoted are absolutely ineffective.
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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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There’s not any hint of nature. And still everybody responds, I think.
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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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I once taught art to adults in a night course. I had a woman who painted her back yard, and she said it was the first time she had ever really looked at it. I think everyone sees beauty. Art is a way to respond
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To progress in life you must give up the things you do not like.
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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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Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye, it is in the mind.
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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’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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I would like my work to be recognized as being in the classical tradition (Coptic, Egyptian, Greek, Chinese), as representing the Ideal in the mind. Classical art cannot possibly be eclectic.
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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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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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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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One must see the ideal in one’s own mind. It is like a memory – an awareness -of perfection.
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All that seems like error is not error; and it all has to be done. That which seems like a false step is the next step.
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The adventurous state of mind is a high house… The joy of adventure is unaccountable.
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The worst thing you can think about when you’re working is yourself.
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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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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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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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I think our minds respond to things beyond this world. Take beauty: it’s a very mysterious thing, isn’t it?
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I often paint tranquility. If you stop thinking and rest, then a little happiness comes into your mind. At perfect rest you are comfortable.
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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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It’s through discipline and tremendous disappointment and failure that you arrive at what it is you must paint.
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That which takes us by surprise-moments of happiness-that is inspiration.
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