To progress in life you must give up the things you do not like.
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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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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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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One must see the ideal in one’s own mind. It is like a memory – an awareness -of perfection.
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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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Anything can be painted without representation.
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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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The artist works by awareness of his own state of mind.
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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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My paintings are not about what is seen. They are about what is known forever in the mind.
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I used to meditate until I learned to stop thinking.
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The worst thing you can think about when you’re working is yourself.
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I think everyone sees beauty. Art is a way to respond
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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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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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