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.
AGNES MARTIN
The worst thing you can think about when you’re working is yourself.
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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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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I want to say that they are not what they seem to be. I want to say that all that seems like fantastic mistakes are not mistake.
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It is commonly thought that everything that is can be put into words.
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The happiness of every living thing is what we want.
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The manipulation of materials in an artwork is a result of this state of mind.
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You have to penetrate these and hear what your mind is telling you to do. Such work is original work.
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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 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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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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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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I’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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Anything can be painted without representation.
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I paint with my back to the world
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This is the attractiveness of artwork. It is adventurous, strenuous and joyful.
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