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
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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Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye, it is in the mind.
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Doing what you were born to do … That’s the way to be happy.
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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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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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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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It’s through discipline and tremendous disappointment and failure that you arrive at what it is you must paint.
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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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They are immeasurable, completely lacking in substance. They are perfect and sublime. This is the subject matter of art.
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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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Anything can be painted without representation.
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That which takes us by surprise-moments of happiness-that is inspiration.
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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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When I first made a grid I happened to be thinking of the innocence of trees and then this grid came into my mind and I thought it represented innocence, and I still do, and so I painted it and then I was satisfied. I thought, this is my vision.
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It is commonly thought that everything that is can be put into words.
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To progress in life you must give up the things you do not like.
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