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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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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My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They’re just horizontal lines.
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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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Once he sees this fact his feet are on the path. If you want to know the truth you will know it.
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When you look in your mind you find it covered with a lot of rubbishy thoughts.
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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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The happiness of every living thing is what we want.
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The manipulation of materials in an artwork is a result of this state of mind.
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Doing what you were born to do … That’s the way to be happy.
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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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To progress in life you must give up the things you do not like.
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The worst thing you can think about when you’re working is yourself.
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They are immeasurable, completely lacking in substance. They are perfect and sublime. This is the subject matter of art.
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We all have the same concern, but the artist must know exactly what the experience is. He must pursue the truth relentlessly
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The artist works by awareness of his own state of mind.
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I’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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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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It’s not about facts, it’s about feelings. It’s about remembering feelings and happiness.
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I think our minds respond to things beyond this world. Take beauty: it’s a very mysterious thing, isn’t it?
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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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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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Give up doing the things that you do not like to do.
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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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I paint with my back to the world
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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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