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There’s not any hint of nature. And still everybody responds, I think.

Agnes Martin

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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Art Classical Memories Perfection Tradition
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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Afternoon Beach Front Living Nature Nobody Ocean Stand Waterfall
It’s not about facts, it’s about feelings. It’s about remembering feelings and happiness.
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Art Fact Feeling Happiness Remembering Thinking
You have to penetrate these and hear what your mind is telling you to do. Such work is original work.
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Hear Mind Original Penetrate Telling Work
Anything can be painted without representation.
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Anything Painting Representation
Give up doing the things that you do not like to do.
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Do Doing Give Like Thing
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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Beach Cross Curtain Empty Look Nature Ocean Painting
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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Abstract Art Beauty Happiness Perfect Pervasive Sublime Unattached
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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First Grid Happenedm Innocense Made Mind Satisfy Think Thinking Tree
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
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Battle Destroy Destroyed Ego Endless Frustration Life Pride
I want to emphasize the fact that we all have the same experience and the same concern, but the artist must know exactly what the experience is. He must pursue the truth relentlessly.
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Artist Concern Emphasize Exactly Experience Feet Mind Pursue Relentlessly Same
The adventurous state of mind is a high house… The joy of adventure is unaccountable.
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Adventure High House Joy Mind State
You can’t make a perfect painting. We can see perfection in our minds. But we can’t make a perfect painting.
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Art Mind Painting Perfect Perfection
I paint with my back to the world
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Back Paint World
My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They’re just horizontal lines.
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Art Certainly Hint Horizontal Life Nonobjective Painting Thinking
The enormous pitfall is devotion to oneself instead of to life. All works that are self-devoted are absolutely ineffective.
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Devotion Enormous Instead Life Oneself Pitfall Self

There’s not any hint of nature. And still everybody responds, I think.

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