Happiness is being on the beam with life – to feel the pull of life
AGNES MARTINPollock 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.
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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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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Inspiration is there all the time. For everyone whose mind is not clouded over with thoughts whether they realize it or not.
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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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You must find the things that you do like. The things that are acceptable to your 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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Give up doing the things that you do not like to do.
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The Minimalists are idealist. They want to minimise themselves in favour of the ideal. But I just can’t. You see, my paintings are not cool.
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I used to meditate until I learned to stop thinking.
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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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The happiness of every living thing is what we want.
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The manipulation of materials in an artwork is a result of this state of mind.
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Anything can be painted without representation.
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My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They’re just horizontal lines.
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It is commonly thought that everything that is can be put into words.
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