There’s not any hint of nature. And still everybody responds, I think.
AGNES MARTINInspiration is there all the time. For everyone whose mind is not clouded over with thoughts whether they realize it or not.
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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The artist works by awareness of his own state of mind.
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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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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 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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You have to penetrate these and hear what your mind is telling you to do. Such work is original work.
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Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye, it is in the mind.
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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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It’s not about facts, it’s about feelings. It’s about remembering feelings and happiness.
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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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I’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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I’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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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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It’s through discipline and tremendous disappointment and failure that you arrive at what it is you must paint.
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