Fulfill your potential. That’s the way to happiness.
AGNES MARTINI once taught art to adults in a night course. I had a woman who painted her back yard, and she said it was the first time she had ever really looked at it. I think everyone sees beauty. Art is a way to respond
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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I’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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Give up doing the things that you do not like to do.
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The manipulation of materials in an artwork is a result of this state of mind.
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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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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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I used to meditate until I learned to stop thinking.
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I paint with my back to the world
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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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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 enormous pitfall is devotion to oneself instead of to life. All works that are self-devoted are absolutely ineffective.
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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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Anything can be painted without representation.
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The artist works by awareness of his own state of mind.
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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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It’s through discipline and tremendous disappointment and failure that you arrive at what it is you must paint.
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