I’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
AGNES MARTINI’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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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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My paintings are not about what is seen. They are about what is known forever in the 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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To progress in life you must give up the things you do not like.
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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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This is the attractiveness of artwork. It is adventurous, strenuous and joyful.
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The adventurous state of mind is a high house… The joy of adventure is unaccountable.
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I paint with my back to the world
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I think everyone sees beauty. Art is a way to respond
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Doing what you were born to do … That’s the way to be happy.
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I’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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The artist works by awareness of his own state of mind.
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Give up doing the things that you do not like to do.
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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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