The enormous pitfall is devotion to oneself instead of to life. All works that are self-devoted are absolutely ineffective.
AGNES MARTINThe manipulation of materials in an artwork is a result of this state of mind.
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye, it is in the mind.
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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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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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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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It’s through discipline and tremendous disappointment and failure that you arrive at what it is you must paint.
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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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That which takes us by surprise-moments of happiness-that is inspiration.
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The manipulation of materials in an artwork is a result of this state of mind.
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The artist works by awareness of his own state of mind.
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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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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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To progress in life you must give up the things you do not like.
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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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I think it’s a response in our minds to perfection. It’s too bad, people not realizing that their minds expand beyond this world.
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