Give up doing the things that you do not like to do.
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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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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It is commonly thought that everything that is can be put into words.
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The happiness of every living thing is what we want.
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Inspiration is there all the time. For everyone whose mind is not clouded over with thoughts whether they realize it or not.
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Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.
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Happiness is being on the beam with life – to feel the pull of life
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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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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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I hope I have made it clear that the work is about perfection as we are aware of it in our minds but that the paintings are very far from being perfect – completely removed in fact – even as we ourselves are.
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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’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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Anything can be painted without representation.
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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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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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Any material may be used but the theme is the same and the response is the same for all artwork.
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Fulfill your potential. That’s the way to happiness.
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Once he sees this fact his feet are on the path. If you want to know the truth you will know it.
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The manipulation of materials in an artwork is a result of this state of 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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It would be an endless battle if it were all up to ego because it does not destroy and is not destroyed by itself It is like a wave it makes itself up,It rushes forward getting nowhere really it crashes
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I once taught art to adults in a night course. I had a woman who painted her back yard, and she said it was the first time she had ever really looked at it. I think everyone sees beauty. Art is a way to respond
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The artist works by awareness of his own state of mind.
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Nature is like parting a curtain, you go into it …. as you would cross an empty beach to look at the ocean.
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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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The adventurous state of mind is a high house… The joy of adventure is unaccountable.
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