Fulfill your potential. That’s the way to happiness.
AGNES MARTINFulfill your potential. That’s the way to happiness.
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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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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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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One must see the ideal in one’s own mind. It is like a memory – an awareness -of perfection.
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To progress in life you must give up the things you do not like.
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I paint with my back to the world
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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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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 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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That which takes us by surprise-moments of happiness-that is inspiration.
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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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The happiness of every living thing is what we want.
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I think our minds respond to things beyond this world. Take beauty: it’s a very mysterious thing, isn’t it?
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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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Any material may be used but the theme is the same and the response is the same for all artwork.
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You can’t make a perfect painting. We can see perfection in our minds. But we can’t make a perfect painting.
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