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.
AGNES MARTINI’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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The happiness of every living thing is what we want.
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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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To progress in life you must give up the things you do not like.
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There’s not any hint of nature. And still everybody responds, I think.
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Fulfill your potential. That’s the way to happiness.
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I paint with my back to the 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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Give up doing the things that you do not like to do.
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I’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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The manipulation of materials in an artwork is a result of this state of 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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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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It’s through discipline and tremendous disappointment and failure that you arrive at what it is you must paint.
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Inspiration is there all the time. For everyone whose mind is not clouded over with thoughts whether they realize it or not.
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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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