There’s not any hint of nature. And still everybody responds, I think.
AGNES MARTINThe adventurous state of mind is a high house… The joy of adventure is unaccountable.
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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When you look in your mind you find it covered with a lot of rubbishy thoughts.
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What we really want to do is serve happiness. We want everyone to be happy, never unhappy even for a moment. We want the animals to be happy.
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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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This is the attractiveness of artwork. It is adventurous, strenuous and joyful.
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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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Anything can be painted without representation.
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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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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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It’s through discipline and tremendous disappointment and failure that you arrive at what it is you must paint.
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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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It’s not about facts, it’s about feelings. It’s about remembering feelings and happiness.
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I’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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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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My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They’re just horizontal lines.
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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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