When you look in your mind you find it covered with a lot of rubbishy thoughts.
AGNES MARTINHappiness is being on the beam with life – to feel the pull of life
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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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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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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I once taught art to adults in a night course. I had a woman who painted her back yard, and she said it was the first time she had ever really looked at it. I think everyone sees beauty. Art is a way to respond
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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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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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They are immeasurable, completely lacking in substance. They are perfect and sublime. This is the subject matter of art.
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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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Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.
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I’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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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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My paintings are not about what is seen. They are about what is known forever in the mind.
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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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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 hope I have made it clear that the work is about perfection as we are aware of it in our minds but that the paintings are very far from being perfect – completely removed in fact – even as we ourselves are.
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I’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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