The worst thing you can think about when you’re working is yourself.
AGNES MARTINGive up doing the things that you do not like to do.
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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There’s not any hint of nature. And still everybody responds, I think.
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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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Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.
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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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One must see the ideal in one’s own mind. It is like a memory – an awareness -of perfection.
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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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My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They’re just horizontal lines.
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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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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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Give up doing the things that you do not like to do.
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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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You must find the things that you do like. The things that are acceptable to your mind.
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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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You can’t make a perfect painting. We can see perfection in our minds. But we can’t make a perfect painting.
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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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