The happiness of every living thing is what we want.
AGNES MARTINMy paintings are certainly nonobjective. They’re just horizontal lines.
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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There’s not any hint of nature. And still everybody responds, I think.
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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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This is the attractiveness of artwork. It is adventurous, strenuous and joyful.
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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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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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The worst thing you can think about when you’re working is yourself.
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Give up doing the things that you do not like to do.
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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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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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Happiness is being on the beam with life – to feel the pull of life
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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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They are immeasurable, completely lacking in substance. They are perfect and sublime. This is the subject matter of art.
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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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It’s through discipline and tremendous disappointment and failure that you arrive at what it is you must paint.
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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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