I’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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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There’s not any hint of nature. And still everybody responds, I think.
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This is the attractiveness of artwork. It is adventurous, strenuous and joyful.
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The artist works by awareness of his own state of mind.
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The worst thing you can think about when you’re working is yourself.
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To progress in life you must give up the things you do not like.
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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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One must see the ideal in one’s own mind. It is like a memory – an awareness -of perfection.
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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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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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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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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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I paint with my back to the world
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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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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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It’s not about facts, it’s about feelings. It’s about remembering feelings and happiness.
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