Once he sees this fact his feet are on the path. If you want to know the truth you will know it.
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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You have to penetrate these and hear what your mind is telling you to do. Such work is original work.
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I want to emphasize the fact that we all have the same experience and the same concern, but the artist must know exactly what the experience is. He must pursue the truth relentlessly.
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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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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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Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.
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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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To progress in life you must give up the things you do not like.
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I used to meditate until I learned to stop thinking.
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The artist works by awareness of his own state of mind.
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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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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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My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They’re just horizontal lines.
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I’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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The adventurous state of mind is a high house… The joy of adventure is unaccountable.
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That which takes us by surprise-moments of happiness-that is inspiration.
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