It’s through discipline and tremendous disappointment and failure that you arrive at what it is you must paint.
AGNES MARTINI paint with my back to the world
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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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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Pollock was terrific. I think he freed himself of all kinds of worry about this world. Ran around and dripped, and then he managed to express ecstasy.
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All that seems like error is not error; and it all has to be done. That which seems like a false step is the next step.
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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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The worst thing you can think about when you’re working is yourself.
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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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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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You must find the things that you do like. The things that are acceptable to your mind.
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This is the attractiveness of artwork. It is adventurous, strenuous and joyful.
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When I think of art I think of beauty. Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye it is in the mind. In our minds there is awareness of perfection.
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What I say is that we’re capable of a transcendent response, and I think it makes us happy. And I do think beauty produces a transcendent response.
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Fulfill your potential. That’s the way to happiness.
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I’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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The artist works by awareness of his own state of mind.
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