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
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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To progress in life you must give up the things you do not like.
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My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They’re just horizontal lines.
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Fulfill your potential. That’s the way to happiness.
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Doing what you were born to do … That’s the way to be happy.
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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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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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Give up doing the things that you do not like to do.
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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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I used to meditate until I learned to stop thinking.
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The happiness of every living thing is what we want.
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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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Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye, it is in the mind.
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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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Happiness is being on the beam with life – to feel the pull of life
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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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When you look in your mind you find it covered with a lot of rubbishy thoughts.
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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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That which takes us by surprise-moments of happiness-that is inspiration.
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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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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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The manipulation of materials in an artwork is a result of this state of mind.
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There’s not any hint of nature. And still everybody responds, I think.
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This is the attractiveness of artwork. It is adventurous, strenuous and joyful.
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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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It’s not about facts, it’s about feelings. It’s about remembering feelings and happiness.
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The adventurous state of mind is a high house… The joy of adventure is unaccountable.
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