It’s through discipline and tremendous disappointment and failure that you arrive at what it is you must paint.
AGNES MARTINDoing what you were born to do … That’s the way to be happy.
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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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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When you look in your mind you find it covered with a lot of rubbishy thoughts.
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That which takes us by surprise-moments of happiness-that is inspiration.
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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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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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The enormous pitfall is devotion to oneself instead of to life. All works that are self-devoted are absolutely ineffective.
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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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The artist works by awareness of his own state of mind.
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Inspiration is there all the time. For everyone whose mind is not clouded over with thoughts whether they realize it or not.
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It is commonly thought that everything that is can be put into words.
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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 it’s a response in our minds to perfection. It’s too bad, people not realizing that their minds expand beyond this world.
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There’s not any hint of nature. And still everybody responds, I think.
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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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Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye, it is in the mind.
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