We all have the same concern, but the artist must know exactly what the experience is. He must pursue the truth relentlessly
AGNES MARTINThe manipulation of materials in an artwork is a result of this state of mind.
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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The worst thing you can think about when you’re working is yourself.
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My paintings are not about what is seen. They are about what is known forever 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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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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They are immeasurable, completely lacking in substance. They are perfect and sublime. This is the subject matter of art.
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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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Beauty and happiness and life are all the same and they are pervasive, unattached and abstract and they are our only concern.
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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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Happiness is being on the beam with life – to feel the pull of life
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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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The adventurous state of mind is a high house… The joy of adventure is unaccountable.
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Give up doing the things that you do not like to do.
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There’s not any hint of nature. And still everybody responds, I think.
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To progress in life you must give up the things you do not like.
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Anything can be painted without representation.
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