Once he sees this fact his feet are on the path. If you want to know the truth you will know it.
AGNES MARTINI’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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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Anything can be painted without representation.
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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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When you look in your mind you find it covered with a lot of rubbishy thoughts.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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The enormous pitfall is devotion to oneself instead of to life. All works that are self-devoted are absolutely ineffective.
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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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Doing what you were born to do … That’s the way to be happy.
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The happiness of every living thing is what we want.
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