I used to meditate until I learned to stop thinking.
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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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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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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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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Nature is like parting a curtain, you go into it …. as you would cross an empty beach to look at the ocean.
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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 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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My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They’re just horizontal lines.
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Doing what you were born to do … That’s the way to be happy.
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Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.
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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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I’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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That which takes us by surprise-moments of happiness-that is inspiration.
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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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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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