Anything can be painted without representation.
AGNES MARTINWithdraws 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
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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Doing what you were born to do … That’s the way to be happy.
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When I think of art I think of beauty. Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye it is in the mind. In our minds there is awareness of perfection.
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Give up doing the things that you do not like to do.
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The worst thing you can think about when you’re working is yourself.
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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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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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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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When you look in your mind you find it covered with a lot of rubbishy thoughts.
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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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One must see the ideal in one’s own mind. It is like a memory – an awareness -of perfection.
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There’s not any hint of nature. And still everybody responds, I think.
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This is the attractiveness of artwork. It is adventurous, strenuous and joyful.
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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 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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It’s through discipline and tremendous disappointment and failure that you arrive at what it is you must paint.
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