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.
AGNES MARTINThere’s not any hint of nature. And still everybody responds, I think.
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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I often paint tranquility. If you stop thinking and rest, then a little happiness comes into your mind. At perfect rest you are comfortable.
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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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There’s not any hint of nature. And still everybody responds, I think.
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Fulfill your potential. That’s the way to happiness.
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All that seems like error is not error; and it all has to be done. That which seems like a false step is the next step.
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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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The adventurous state of mind is a high house… The joy of adventure is unaccountable.
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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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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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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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I paint with my back to the world
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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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Any material may be used but the theme is the same and the response is the same for all artwork.
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My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They’re just horizontal lines.
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I’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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