Give up doing the things that you do not like to do.
AGNES MARTINIt’s through discipline and tremendous disappointment and failure that you arrive at what it is you must paint.
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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You have to penetrate these and hear what your mind is telling you to do. Such work is original work.
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The worst thing you can think about when you’re working is yourself.
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Fulfill your potential. That’s the way to happiness.
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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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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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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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It is commonly thought that everything that is can be put into words.
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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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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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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 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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One must see the ideal in one’s own mind. It is like a memory – an awareness -of perfection.
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Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.
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I paint with my back to the world
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