It’s through discipline and tremendous disappointment and failure that you arrive at what it is you must paint.
AGNES MARTINWhen you look in your mind you find it covered with a lot of rubbishy thoughts.
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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Anything can be painted without representation.
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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 paint with my back to the world
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I’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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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 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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One must see the ideal in one’s own mind. It is like a memory – an awareness -of perfection.
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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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Doing what you were born to do … That’s the way to be happy.
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The adventurous state of mind is a high house… The joy of adventure is unaccountable.
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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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This is the attractiveness of artwork. It is adventurous, strenuous and joyful.
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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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I think everyone sees beauty. Art is a way to respond
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The worst thing you can think about when you’re working is yourself.
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