You have to penetrate these and hear what your mind is telling you to do. Such work is original work.
AGNES MARTINGive up doing the things that you do not like to do.
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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The happiness of every living thing is what we want.
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There’s not any hint of nature. And still everybody responds, I think.
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Happiness is being on the beam with life – to feel the pull of life
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My paintings are not about what is seen. They are about what is known forever in the mind.
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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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All that seems like error is not error; and it all has to be done. That which seems like a false step is the next step.
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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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Give up doing the things that you do not like to do.
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The enormous pitfall is devotion to oneself instead of to life. All works that are self-devoted are absolutely ineffective.
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I think it’s a response in our minds to perfection. It’s too bad, people not realizing that their minds expand beyond this world.
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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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It’s not about facts, it’s about feelings. It’s about remembering feelings and happiness.
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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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They are immeasurable, completely lacking in substance. They are perfect and sublime. This is the subject matter of art.
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What we really want to do is serve happiness. We want everyone to be happy, never unhappy even for a moment. We want the animals to be happy.
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