Once he sees this fact his feet are on the path. If you want to know the truth you will know it.
AGNES MARTINI’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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It’s not about facts, it’s about feelings. It’s about remembering feelings and happiness.
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The manipulation of materials in an artwork is a result of this state of mind.
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That which takes us by surprise-moments of happiness-that is inspiration.
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This is the attractiveness of artwork. It is adventurous, strenuous and joyful.
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To progress in life you must give up the things you do not like.
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Give up doing the things that you do not like to do.
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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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I paint with my back to the world
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I think everyone sees beauty. Art is a way to respond
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I hope I have made it clear that the work is about perfection as we are aware of it in our minds but that the paintings are very far from being perfect – completely removed in fact – even as we ourselves are.
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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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One must see the ideal in one’s own mind. It is like a memory – an awareness -of perfection.
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Happiness is being on the beam with life – to feel the pull of life
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When I first made a grid I happened to be thinking of the innocence of trees and then this grid came into my mind and I thought it represented innocence, and I still do, and so I painted it and then I was satisfied. I thought, this is my vision.
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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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