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 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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The happiness of every living thing is what we want.
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I think everyone sees beauty. Art is a way to respond
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Fulfill your potential. That’s the way to happiness.
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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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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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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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I think our minds respond to things beyond this world. Take beauty: it’s a very mysterious thing, isn’t it?
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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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I used to meditate until I learned to stop thinking.
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It is commonly thought that everything that is can be put into words.
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The artist works by awareness of his own state of mind.
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There’s not any hint of nature. And still everybody responds, I think.
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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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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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I think it’s a response in our minds to perfection. It’s too bad, people not realizing that their minds expand beyond this world.
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I’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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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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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 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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The worst thing you can think about when you’re working is yourself.
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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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I would like my work to be recognized as being in the classical tradition (Coptic, Egyptian, Greek, Chinese), as representing the Ideal in the mind. Classical art cannot possibly be eclectic.
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This is the attractiveness of artwork. It is adventurous, strenuous and joyful.
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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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I’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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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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