Anything can be painted without representation.
AGNES MARTINNature is like parting a curtain, you go into it …. as you would cross an empty beach to look at the ocean.
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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This is the attractiveness of artwork. It is adventurous, strenuous and joyful.
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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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It’s not about facts, it’s about feelings. It’s about remembering feelings and happiness.
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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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You can’t make a perfect painting. We can see perfection in our minds. But we can’t make a perfect painting.
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The artist works by awareness of his own state of mind.
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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’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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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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Give up doing the things that you do not like to do.
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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 would like my work to be recognized as being in the classical tradition (Coptic, Egyptian, Greek, Chinese), as representing the Ideal in the mind. Classical art cannot possibly be eclectic.
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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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Happiness is being on the beam with life – to feel the pull of life
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The manipulation of materials in an artwork is a result of this state of mind.
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