You can’t make a perfect painting. We can see perfection in our minds. But we can’t make a perfect painting.
AGNES MARTINIt is commonly thought that everything that is can be put into words.
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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When you look in your mind you find it covered with a lot of rubbishy thoughts.
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Anything can be painted without representation.
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This is the attractiveness of artwork. It is adventurous, strenuous and joyful.
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We all have the same concern, but the artist must know exactly what the experience is. He must pursue the truth relentlessly
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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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When I think of art I think of beauty. Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye it is in the mind. In our minds there is awareness of perfection.
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Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.
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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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There’s nobody living who couldn’t stand all afternoon in front of a waterfall …. Anyone who can sit on a stone in a field awhile can see my painting.
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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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I’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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Withdraws and makes itself up again pulls itself together with pride towers with pride rushes forward into imaginary conquest crashes in frustration withdraws with remorse and repentance pulls itself together with new resolution
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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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They are immeasurable, completely lacking in substance. They are perfect and sublime. This is the subject matter of art.
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