You can’t make a perfect painting. We can see perfection in our minds. But we can’t make a perfect painting.
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.
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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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Doing what you were born to do … That’s the way to be happy.
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I’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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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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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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You have to penetrate these and hear what your mind is telling you to do. Such work is original work.
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My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They’re just horizontal lines.
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To progress in life you must give up the things you do not like.
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Anything can be painted without representation.
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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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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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It is commonly thought that everything that is can be put into words.
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When you look in your mind you find it covered with a lot of rubbishy thoughts.
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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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