This is the attractiveness of artwork. It is adventurous, strenuous and joyful.
AGNES MARTINGive up doing the things that you do not like to do.
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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The worst thing you can think about when you’re working is yourself.
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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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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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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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I used to meditate until I learned to stop thinking.
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Beauty and happiness and life are all the same and they are pervasive, unattached and abstract and they are our only concern.
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Fulfill your potential. That’s the way to happiness.
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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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Anything can be painted without representation.
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When you look in your mind you find it covered with a lot of rubbishy thoughts.
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It is commonly thought that everything that is can be put into words.
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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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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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Doing what you were born to do … That’s the way to be happy.
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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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