It is commonly thought that everything that is can be put into words.
AGNES MARTINThis is the attractiveness of artwork. It is adventurous, strenuous and joyful.
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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Fulfill your potential. That’s the way to happiness.
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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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I paint with my back to the world
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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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The enormous pitfall is devotion to oneself instead of to life. All works that are self-devoted are absolutely ineffective.
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It’s not about facts, it’s about feelings. It’s about remembering feelings and happiness.
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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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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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When I first made a grid I happened to be thinking of the innocence of trees and then this grid came into my mind and I thought it represented innocence, and I still do, and so I painted it and then I was satisfied. I thought, this is my vision.
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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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There’s nobody living who couldn’t stand all afternoon in front of a waterfall …. Anyone who can sit on a stone in a field awhile can see my painting.
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A definition of art is that it makes concrete our most subtle emotions. I think the highest form of art is music. It’s the most abstract of all art expression.
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Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.
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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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Give up doing the things that you do not like to do.
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