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.
AGNES MARTINHappiness is being on the beam with life – to feel the pull of life
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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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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The adventurous state of mind is a high house… The joy of adventure is unaccountable.
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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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I’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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When I think of art I think of beauty. Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye it is in the mind. In our minds there is awareness of perfection.
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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 artist works by awareness of his own state of mind.
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I paint with my back to the world
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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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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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The enormous pitfall is devotion to oneself instead of to life. All works that are self-devoted are absolutely ineffective.
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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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There’s not any hint of nature. And still everybody responds, I think.
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Happiness is being on the beam with life – to feel the pull of life
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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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