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

Agnes Martin

It’s through discipline and tremendous disappointment and failure that you arrive at what it is you must paint.
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Arrive Disappointment Discipline Failure Must Paint Through
I once taught art to adults in a night course. I had a woman who painted her back yard, and she said it was the first time she had ever really looked at it. I think everyone sees beauty. Art is a way to respond
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Adult Art Course Night Once Taught Think Thinking
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
Anything can be painted without representation.
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Anything Painting Representation
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
I paint with my back to the world
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Back Paint World
I’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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Careful Idea Inaccurate
It’s not about facts, it’s about feelings. It’s about remembering feelings and happiness.
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Art Fact Feeling Happiness Remembering Thinking
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
Doing what you were born to do … That’s the way to be happy.
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Born Doing Happy Way
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
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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Conquer Crashes Forward Make Pride Pull Repentance Tower Withdrawl
I hope I have made it clear that the work is about perfection as we are aware of it in our minds but that the paintings are very far from being perfect – completely removed in fact – even as we ourselves are.
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Art Aware Hope Made Mind Ourself Perfect Perfection
I think everyone sees beauty. Art is a way to respond
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Art Beauty Everyone Respond See Way
I often paint tranquility. If you stop thinking and rest, then a little happiness comes into your mind. At perfect rest you are comfortable.
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Happiness Mind Often Paint Perfect Stop Think Thinking Tranquility
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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Beach Cross Curtain Empty Look Nature Ocean Painting

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