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.
AGNES MARTINA 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.
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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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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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 must find the things that you do like. The things that are acceptable to your mind.
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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 happiness of every living thing is what we want.
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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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It’s through discipline and tremendous disappointment and failure that you arrive at what it is you must paint.
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Fulfill your potential. That’s the way to happiness.
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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 think our minds respond to things beyond this world. Take beauty: it’s a very mysterious thing, isn’t it?
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This is the attractiveness of artwork. It is adventurous, strenuous and joyful.
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When you look in your mind you find it covered with a lot of rubbishy thoughts.
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It’s not about facts, it’s about feelings. It’s about remembering feelings and happiness.
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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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I used to meditate until I learned to stop thinking.
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