You have to penetrate these and hear what your mind is telling you to do. Such work is original work.
AGNES MARTIN
The artist works by awareness of his own state of mind.
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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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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I want to emphasize the fact that we all have the same experience and the same concern, but the artist must know exactly what the experience is. He must pursue the truth relentlessly.
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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 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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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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The Minimalists are idealist. They want to minimise themselves in favour of the ideal. But I just can’t. You see, my paintings are not cool.
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All that seems like error is not error; and it all has to be done. That which seems like a false step is the next step.
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My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They’re just horizontal lines.
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When I first made a grid I happened to be thinking of the innocence of trees and then this grid came into my mind and I thought it represented innocence, and I still do, and so I painted it and then I was satisfied. I thought, this is my vision.
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Give up doing the things that you do not like to do.
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Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.
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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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Anything can be painted without representation.
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What I say is that we’re capable of a transcendent response, and I think it makes us happy. And I do think beauty produces a transcendent response.
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