We all have the same concern, but the artist must know exactly what the experience is. He must pursue the truth relentlessly
AGNES MARTINOnce he sees this fact his feet are on the path. If you want to know the truth you will know it.
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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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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There’s nobody living who couldn’t stand all afternoon in front of a waterfall …. Anyone who can sit on a stone in a field awhile can see my painting.
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Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.
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My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They’re just horizontal lines.
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Doing what you were born to do … That’s the way to be happy.
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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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The artist works by awareness of his own state of mind.
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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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Fulfill your potential. That’s the way to happiness.
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What we really want to do is serve happiness. We want everyone to be happy, never unhappy even for a moment. We want the animals to be happy.
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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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Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye, it is in the mind.
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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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You must find the things that you do like. The things that are acceptable to your mind.
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I often paint tranquility. If you stop thinking and rest, then a little happiness comes into your mind. At perfect rest you are comfortable.
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