The artist works by awareness of his own state of mind.
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It is commonly thought that everything that is can be put into words.
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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The artist works by awareness of his own state of mind.
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A definition of art is that it makes concrete our most subtle emotions. I think the highest form of art is music. It’s the most abstract of all art expression.
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Happiness is being on the beam with life – to feel the pull of life
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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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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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Fulfill your potential. That’s the way to happiness.
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To progress in life you must give up the things you do not like.
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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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When you look in your mind you find it covered with a lot of rubbishy thoughts.
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What I say is that we’re capable of a transcendent response, and I think it makes us happy. And I do think beauty produces a transcendent response.
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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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My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They’re just horizontal lines.
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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 everyone sees beauty. Art is a way to respond
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Give up doing the things that you do not like to do.
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