The adventurous state of mind is a high house… The joy of adventure is unaccountable.
AGNES MARTINThe adventurous state of mind is a high house… The joy of adventure is unaccountable.
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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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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Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.
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It is commonly thought that everything that is can be put into words.
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This is the attractiveness of artwork. It is adventurous, strenuous and joyful.
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That which takes us by surprise-moments of happiness-that is inspiration.
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I paint with my back to the world
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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
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You must find the things that you do like. The things that are acceptable to your mind.
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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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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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Give up doing the things that you do not like to do.
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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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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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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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I once taught art to adults in a night course. I had a woman who painted her back yard, and she said it was the first time she had ever really looked at it. I think everyone sees beauty. Art is a way to respond
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