To progress in life you must give up the things you do not like.
AGNES MARTINI think our minds respond to things beyond this world. Take beauty: it’s a very mysterious thing, isn’t it?
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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You can’t make a perfect painting. We can see perfection in our minds. But we can’t make a perfect painting.
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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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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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It’s not about facts, it’s about feelings. It’s about remembering feelings and happiness.
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The worst thing you can think about when you’re working is yourself.
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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 artist works by awareness of his own state of mind.
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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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Any material may be used but the theme is the same and the response is the same for all artwork.
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That which takes us by surprise-moments of happiness-that is inspiration.
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The happiness of every living thing is what we want.
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Give up doing the things that you do not like to do.
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I’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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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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The manipulation of materials in an artwork is a result of this state of mind.
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