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Give up doing the things that you do not like to do.

Agnes Martin

You have to penetrate these and hear what your mind is telling you to do. Such work is original work.
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Hear Mind Original Penetrate Telling Work
Doing what you were born to do … That’s the way to be happy.
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Born Doing Happy Way
One must see the ideal in one’s own mind. It is like a memory – an awareness -of perfection.
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Awareness Idea Memory Mind Musit One Own Perfection
When I first made a grid I happened to be thinking of the innocence of trees and then this grid came into my mind and I thought it represented innocence, and I still do, and so I painted it and then I was satisfied. I thought, this is my vision.
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First Grid Happenedm Innocense Made Mind Satisfy Think Thinking Tree
Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.
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Art Emotion Feeling Representation Subtle
I think everyone sees beauty. Art is a way to respond
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Art Beauty Everyone Respond See Way
I would like my work to be recognized as being in the classical tradition (Coptic, Egyptian, Greek, Chinese), as representing the Ideal in the mind. Classical art cannot possibly be eclectic.
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Art Classical Memories Perfection Tradition
I paint with my back to the world
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Back Paint World
It is commonly thought that everything that is can be put into words.
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Commonly Everything Put Thought Word
The enormous pitfall is devotion to oneself instead of to life. All works that are self-devoted are absolutely ineffective.
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Devotion Enormous Instead Life Oneself Pitfall Self
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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Battle Destroy Destroyed Ego Endless Frustration Life Pride
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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Beauty Beyond Mind Mysterious Respond Thing Thinking World
The worst thing you can think about when you’re working is yourself.
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Think Thinking Working Worst Yourself
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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Art Himself Kind Pollock Terrific Think Thinking Worry
The manipulation of materials in an artwork is a result of this state of mind.
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Artwork Manipulation Material Mind Result State
When you look in your mind you find it covered with a lot of rubbishy thoughts.
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Covered Look Looking Mind Rubbishy Thought

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