Anything can be painted without representation.
AGNES MARTINI paint with my back to the world
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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I paint with my back to the world
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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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Fulfill your potential. That’s the way to 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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The happiness of every living thing is what we want.
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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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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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The manipulation of materials in an artwork is a result of this state of mind.
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Doing what you were born to do … That’s the way to be happy.
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To progress in life you must give up the things you do not like.
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I’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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The adventurous state of mind is a high house… The joy of adventure is unaccountable.
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My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They’re just horizontal lines.
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You have to penetrate these and hear what your mind is telling you to do. Such work is original work.
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