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.
AGNES MARTINI used to meditate until I learned to stop thinking.
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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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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Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.
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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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Give up doing the things that you do not like to do.
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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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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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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 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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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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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 enormous pitfall is devotion to oneself instead of to life. All works that are self-devoted are absolutely ineffective.
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This is the attractiveness of artwork. It is adventurous, strenuous and joyful.
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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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The worst thing you can think about when you’re working is yourself.
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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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