One must see the ideal in one’s own mind. It is like a memory – an awareness -of perfection.
AGNES MARTINI used to meditate until I learned to stop thinking.
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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Doing what you were born to do … That’s the way to be happy.
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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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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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I would like my work to be recognized as being in the classical tradition (Coptic, Egyptian, Greek, Chinese), as representing the Ideal in the mind. Classical art cannot possibly be eclectic.
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Anything can be painted without representation.
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My paintings are not about what is seen. They are about what is known forever in the mind.
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That which takes us by surprise-moments of happiness-that is inspiration.
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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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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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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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They are immeasurable, completely lacking in substance. They are perfect and sublime. This is the subject matter of art.
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The manipulation of materials in an artwork is a result of this state of mind.
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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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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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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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