Give up doing the things that you do not like to do.
AGNES MARTIN
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Give up doing the things that you do not like to do.
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Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.
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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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My paintings are not about what is seen. They are about what is known forever in the mind.
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The artist works by awareness of his own state of mind.
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That which takes us by surprise-moments of happiness-that is inspiration.
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I hope I have made it clear that the work is about perfection as we are aware of it in our minds but that the paintings are very far from being perfect – completely removed in fact – even as we ourselves are.
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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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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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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’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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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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I would like my work to be recognized as being in the classical tradition (Coptic, Egyptian, Greek, Chinese), as representing the Ideal in the mind. Classical art cannot possibly be eclectic.
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When you look in your mind you find it covered with a lot of rubbishy thoughts.
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The happiness of every living thing is what we want.
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