It’s through discipline and tremendous disappointment and failure that you arrive at what it is you must paint.
AGNES MARTIN
Happiness is being on the beam with life – to feel the pull of life
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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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Any material may be used but the theme is the same and the response is the same for all artwork.
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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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Beauty and happiness and life are all the same and they are pervasive, unattached and abstract and they are our only concern.
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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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The artist works by awareness of his own state of mind.
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Withdraws and makes itself up again pulls itself together with pride towers with pride rushes forward into imaginary conquest crashes in frustration withdraws with remorse and repentance pulls itself together with new resolution
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The manipulation of materials in an artwork is a result of this state of mind.
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When you look in your mind you find it covered with a lot of rubbishy thoughts.
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Anything can be painted without representation.
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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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When I first made a grid I happened to be thinking of the innocence of trees and then this grid came into my mind and I thought it represented innocence, and I still do, and so I painted it and then I was satisfied. I thought, this is my vision.
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It is commonly thought that everything that is can be put into words.
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There’s not any hint of nature. And still everybody responds, I think.
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The worst thing you can think about when you’re working is yourself.
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I think everyone sees beauty. Art is a way to respond
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