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
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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It’s not about facts, it’s about feelings. It’s about remembering feelings and happiness.
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The worst thing you can think about when you’re working is yourself.
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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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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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One must see the ideal in one’s own mind. It is like a memory – an awareness -of perfection.
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I used to meditate until I learned to stop thinking.
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Fulfill your potential. That’s the way to happiness.
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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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My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They’re just horizontal lines.
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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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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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Doing what you were born to do … That’s the way to be happy.
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When you look in your mind you find it covered with a lot of rubbishy thoughts.
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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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