You have to penetrate these and hear what your mind is telling you to do. Such work is original work.
AGNES MARTINThis is the attractiveness of artwork. It is adventurous, strenuous and joyful.
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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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That which takes us by surprise-moments of happiness-that is inspiration.
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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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Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.
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The worst thing you can think about when you’re working is yourself.
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I would like my work to be recognized as being in the classical tradition (Coptic, Egyptian, Greek, Chinese), as representing the Ideal in the mind. Classical art cannot possibly be eclectic.
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When you look in your mind you find it covered with a lot of rubbishy thoughts.
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It is commonly thought that everything that is can be put into words.
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Anything can be painted without representation.
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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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I paint with my back to the world
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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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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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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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