There’s not any hint of nature. And still everybody responds, I think.
AGNES MARTINIt 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
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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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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Happiness is being on the beam with life – to feel the pull of life
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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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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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The enormous pitfall is devotion to oneself instead of to life. All works that are self-devoted are absolutely ineffective.
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I think it’s a response in our minds to perfection. It’s too bad, people not realizing that their minds expand beyond this world.
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It is commonly thought that everything that is can be put into words.
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My paintings are not about what is seen. They are about what is known forever in the mind.
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My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They’re just horizontal lines.
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I used to meditate until I learned to stop thinking.
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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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Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.
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We all have the same concern, but the artist must know exactly what the experience is. He must pursue the truth relentlessly
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I often paint tranquility. If you stop thinking and rest, then a little happiness comes into your mind. At perfect rest you are comfortable.
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Give up doing the things that you do not like to do.
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