Once he sees this fact his feet are on the path. If you want to know the truth you will know it.
AGNES MARTINFulfill your potential. That’s the way to happiness.
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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To progress in life you must give up the things you do not like.
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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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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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Any material may be used but the theme is the same and the response is the same for all artwork.
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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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The happiness of every living thing is what we want.
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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 paint with my back to the world
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When you look in your mind you find it covered with a lot of rubbishy thoughts.
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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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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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There’s not any hint of nature. And still everybody responds, I think.
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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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The Minimalists are idealist. They want to minimise themselves in favour of the ideal. But I just can’t. You see, my paintings are not cool.
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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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