Once he sees this fact his feet are on the path. If you want to know the truth you will know it.
AGNES MARTINOne must see the ideal in one’s own mind. It is like a memory – an awareness -of perfection.
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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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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Any material may be used but the theme is the same and the response is the same for all artwork.
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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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What we really want to do is serve happiness. We want everyone to be happy, never unhappy even for a moment. We want the animals to be happy.
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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 enormous pitfall is devotion to oneself instead of to life. All works that are self-devoted are absolutely ineffective.
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I often paint tranquility. If you stop thinking and rest, then a little happiness comes into your mind. At perfect rest you are comfortable.
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It is commonly thought that everything that is can be put into words.
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I used to meditate until I learned to stop thinking.
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Anything can be painted without representation.
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Inspiration is there all the time. For everyone whose mind is not clouded over with thoughts whether they realize it or not.
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To progress in life you must give up the things you do not like.
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It’s not about facts, it’s about feelings. It’s about remembering feelings and happiness.
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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 think everyone sees beauty. Art is a way to respond
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