You can’t make a perfect painting. We can see perfection in our minds. But we can’t make a perfect painting.
AGNES MARTINThe manipulation of materials in an artwork is a result of this state of mind.
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The manipulation of materials in an artwork is a result of this state of mind.
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This is the attractiveness of artwork. It is adventurous, strenuous and joyful.
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Fulfill your potential. That’s the way to happiness.
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I paint with my back to the world
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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 think everyone sees beauty. Art is a way to respond
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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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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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The enormous pitfall is devotion to oneself instead of to life. All works that are self-devoted are absolutely ineffective.
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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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My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They’re just horizontal lines.
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You have to penetrate these and hear what your mind is telling you to do. Such work is original work.
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It’s not about facts, it’s about feelings. It’s about remembering feelings and happiness.
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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 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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