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 MARTINI hope I have made it clear that the work is about perfection as we are aware of it in our minds but that the paintings are very far from being perfect – completely removed in fact – even as we ourselves are.
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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Inspiration is there all the time. For everyone whose mind is not clouded over with thoughts whether they realize it or not.
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Give up doing the things that you do not like to do.
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Happiness is being on the beam with life – to feel the pull of life
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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 used to meditate until I learned to stop thinking.
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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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There’s not any hint of nature. And still everybody responds, I think.
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Doing what you were born to do … That’s the way to be happy.
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Anything can be painted without representation.
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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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Any material may be used but the theme is the same and the response is the same for all artwork.
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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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It’s not about facts, it’s about feelings. It’s about remembering feelings and happiness.
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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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