You have to penetrate these and hear what your mind is telling you to do. Such work is original work.
AGNES MARTINI paint with my back to the world
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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Anything can be painted without representation.
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My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They’re just horizontal lines.
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When you look in your mind you find it covered with a lot of rubbishy thoughts.
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This is the attractiveness of artwork. It is adventurous, strenuous and joyful.
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To progress in life you must give up the things you do not like.
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It is commonly thought that everything that is can be put into words.
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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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What we really want to do is serve happiness. We want everyone to be happy, never unhappy even for a moment. We want the animals to be happy.
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Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.
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It’s through discipline and tremendous disappointment and failure that you arrive at what it is you must paint.
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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 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 I first made a grid I happened to be thinking of the innocence of trees and then this grid came into my mind and I thought it represented innocence, and I still do, and so I painted it and then I was satisfied. I thought, this is my vision.
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