Anything can be painted without representation.
AGNES MARTINIt’s not about facts, it’s about feelings. It’s about remembering feelings and happiness.
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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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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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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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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It is commonly thought that everything that is can be put into words.
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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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This is the attractiveness of artwork. It is adventurous, strenuous and joyful.
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A definition of art is that it makes concrete our most subtle emotions. I think the highest form of art is music. It’s the most abstract of all art expression.
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The artist works by awareness of his own state of mind.
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To progress in life you must give up the things you do not like.
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I paint with my back to the world
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Fulfill your potential. That’s the way to happiness.
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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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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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That which takes us by surprise-moments of happiness-that is inspiration.
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The manipulation of materials in an artwork is a result of this state of mind.
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