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
AGNES MARTINI paint with my back to the world
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They’re just horizontal lines.
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It’s not about facts, it’s about feelings. It’s about remembering feelings and happiness.
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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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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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When you look in your mind you find it covered with a lot of rubbishy thoughts.
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I paint with my back to the world
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The happiness of every living thing is what we want.
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I’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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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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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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You must find the things that you do like. The things that are acceptable to your mind.
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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 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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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 is commonly thought that everything that is can be put into words.
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