Fulfill your potential. That’s the way to happiness.
AGNES MARTINI 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.
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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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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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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Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye, it is in the mind.
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I used to meditate until I learned to stop thinking.
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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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The artist works by awareness of his own state of mind.
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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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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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The adventurous state of mind is a high house… The joy of adventure is unaccountable.
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A definition of art is that it makes concrete our most subtle emotions. I think the highest form of art is music. It’s the most abstract of all art expression.
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I think everyone sees beauty. Art is a way to respond
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The Minimalists are idealist. They want to minimise themselves in favour of the ideal. But I just can’t. You see, my paintings are not cool.
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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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One must see the ideal in one’s own mind. It is like a memory – an awareness -of perfection.
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I’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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