The enormous pitfall is devotion to oneself instead of to life. All works that are self-devoted are absolutely ineffective.
AGNES MARTINHappiness is being on the beam with life – to feel the pull of life
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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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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There’s not any hint of nature. And still everybody responds, I think.
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I’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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That which takes us by surprise-moments of happiness-that is inspiration.
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Anything can be painted without representation.
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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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One must see the ideal in one’s own mind. It is like a memory – an awareness -of perfection.
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The adventurous state of mind is a high house… The joy of adventure is unaccountable.
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I paint with my back to the world
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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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To progress in life you must give up the things you do not like.
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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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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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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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