To progress in life you must give up the things you do not like.
AGNES MARTINWhat 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.
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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Once he sees this fact his feet are on the path. If you want to know the truth you will know it.
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Anything can be painted without representation.
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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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Give up doing the things that you do not like to do.
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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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When you look in your mind you find it covered with a lot of rubbishy thoughts.
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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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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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Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.
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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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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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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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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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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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