The worst thing you can think about when you’re working is yourself.
AGNES MARTINThere’s not any hint of nature. And still everybody responds, I think.
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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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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Happiness is being on the beam with life – to feel the pull of life
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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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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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Anything can be painted without representation.
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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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The artist works by awareness of his own state of mind.
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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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The happiness of every living thing is what we want.
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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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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 paint with my back to the world
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One must see the ideal in one’s own mind. It is like a memory – an awareness -of perfection.
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My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They’re just horizontal lines.
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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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