I often paint tranquility. If you stop thinking and rest, then a little happiness comes into your mind. At perfect rest you are comfortable.
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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I paint with my back to the world
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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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Happiness is being on the beam with life – to feel the pull of life
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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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That which takes us by surprise-moments of happiness-that is inspiration.
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To progress in life you must give up the things you do not like.
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I hope I have made it clear that the work is about perfection as we are aware of it in our minds but that the paintings are very far from being perfect – completely removed in fact – even as we ourselves are.
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When you look in your mind you find it covered with a lot of rubbishy thoughts.
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This is the attractiveness of artwork. It is adventurous, strenuous and joyful.
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The manipulation of materials in an artwork is a result of this state of mind.
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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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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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You must find the things that you do like. The things that are acceptable to your mind.
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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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They are immeasurable, completely lacking in substance. They are perfect and sublime. This is the subject matter of art.
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