One must see the ideal in one’s own mind. It is like a memory – an awareness -of perfection.
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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It’s not about facts, it’s about feelings. It’s about remembering feelings and happiness.
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My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They’re just horizontal lines.
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You must find the things that you do like. The things that are acceptable to your mind.
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Give up doing the things that you do not like to do.
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I’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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I hope I have made it clear that the work is about perfection as we are aware of it in our minds but that the paintings are very far from being perfect – completely removed in fact – even as we ourselves are.
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Happiness is being on the beam with life – to feel the pull of life
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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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To progress in life you must give up the things you do not like.
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That which takes us by surprise-moments of happiness-that is inspiration.
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We all have the same concern, but the artist must know exactly what the experience is. He must pursue the truth relentlessly
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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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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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The happiness of every living thing is what we want.
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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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