The worst thing you can think about when you’re working is yourself.
AGNES MARTINI often paint tranquility. If you stop thinking and rest, then a little happiness comes into your mind. At perfect rest you are comfortable.
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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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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I want to say that they are not what they seem to be. I want to say that all that seems like fantastic mistakes are not mistake.
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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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It’s through discipline and tremendous disappointment and failure that you arrive at what it is you must paint.
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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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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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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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To progress in life you must give up the things you do not like.
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Happiness is being on the beam with life – to feel the pull of life
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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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There’s not any hint of nature. And still everybody responds, I think.
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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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Give up doing the things that you do not like to do.
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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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