I want to emphasize the fact that we all have the same experience and the same concern, but the artist must know exactly what the experience is. He must pursue the truth relentlessly.
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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There’s nobody living who couldn’t stand all afternoon in front of a waterfall …. Anyone who can sit on a stone in a field awhile can see my painting.
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The happiness of every living thing is what we want.
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To progress in life you must give up the things you do not like.
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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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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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This is the attractiveness of artwork. It is adventurous, strenuous and joyful.
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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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Doing what you were born to do … That’s the way to be happy.
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Fulfill your potential. That’s the way to happiness.
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It’s not about facts, it’s about feelings. It’s about remembering feelings and happiness.
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All that seems like error is not error; and it all has to be done. That which seems like a false step is the next step.
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I think our minds respond to things beyond this world. Take beauty: it’s a very mysterious thing, isn’t it?
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I think everyone sees beauty. Art is a way to respond
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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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I’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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