The enormous pitfall is devotion to oneself instead of to life. All works that are self-devoted are absolutely ineffective.
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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One must see the ideal in one’s own mind. It is like a memory – an awareness -of perfection.
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Happiness is being on the beam with life – to feel the pull of life
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My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They’re just horizontal lines.
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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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Once he sees this fact his feet are on the path. If you want to know the truth you will know it.
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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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It’s through discipline and tremendous disappointment and failure that you arrive at what it is you must paint.
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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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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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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’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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Anything can be painted without representation.
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The artist works by awareness of his own state of mind.
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There’s not any hint of nature. And still everybody responds, I think.
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