You must find the things that you do like. The things that are acceptable to your mind.
AGNES MARTINThe 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.
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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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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When you look in your mind you find it covered with a lot of rubbishy thoughts.
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Nature is like parting a curtain, you go into it …. as you would cross an empty beach to look at the ocean.
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Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.
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The manipulation of materials in an artwork is a result of this state of mind.
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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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Give up doing the things that you do not like to do.
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The happiness of every living thing is what we want.
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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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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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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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Anything can be painted without representation.
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I want to say that they are not what they seem to be. I want to say that all that seems like fantastic mistakes are not mistake.
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That which takes us by surprise-moments of happiness-that is inspiration.
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