To progress in life you must give up the things you do not like.
AGNES MARTINI 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.
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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The adventurous state of mind is a high house… The joy of adventure is unaccountable.
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I’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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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 paint with my back to the world
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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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My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They’re just horizontal lines.
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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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What we really want to do is serve happiness. We want everyone to be happy, never unhappy even for a moment. We want the animals to be happy.
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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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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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It’s not about facts, it’s about feelings. It’s about remembering feelings and happiness.
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The artist works by awareness of his own state of mind.
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Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.
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The manipulation of materials in an artwork is a result of this state of mind.
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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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