There’s not any hint of nature. And still everybody responds, I think.
AGNES MARTINIt is commonly thought that everything that is can be put into words.
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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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 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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When you look in your mind you find it covered with a lot of rubbishy thoughts.
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I’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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It is commonly thought that everything that is can be put into words.
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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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It’s not about facts, it’s about feelings. It’s about remembering feelings and happiness.
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This is the attractiveness of artwork. It is adventurous, strenuous and joyful.
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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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It’s through discipline and tremendous disappointment and failure that you arrive at what it is you must paint.
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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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The adventurous state of mind is a high house… The joy of adventure is unaccountable.
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Any material may be used but the theme is the same and the response is the same for all artwork.
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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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Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.
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