You must find the things that you do like. The things that are acceptable to your mind.
AGNES MARTINThere’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.
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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Happiness is being on the beam with life – to feel the pull of life
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Fulfill your potential. That’s the way to happiness.
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The enormous pitfall is devotion to oneself instead of to life. All works that are self-devoted are absolutely ineffective.
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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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That which takes us by surprise-moments of happiness-that is inspiration.
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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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I think everyone sees beauty. Art is a way to respond
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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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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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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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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’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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The manipulation of materials in an artwork is a result of this state of mind.
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Anything can be painted without representation.
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I paint with my back to the world
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