Give up doing the things that you do not like to do.
AGNES MARTINBeauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye, it is in the mind.
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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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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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My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They’re just horizontal lines.
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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 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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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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A definition of art is that it makes concrete our most subtle emotions. I think the highest form of art is music. It’s the most abstract of all art expression.
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The adventurous state of mind is a high house… The joy of adventure is unaccountable.
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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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When you look in your mind you find it covered with a lot of rubbishy thoughts.
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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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This is the attractiveness of artwork. It is adventurous, strenuous and joyful.
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Anything can be painted without representation.
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The manipulation of materials in an artwork is a result of this state of mind.
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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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