It would be an endless battle if it were all up to ego because it does not destroy and is not destroyed by itself It is like a wave it makes itself up,It rushes forward getting nowhere really it crashes
AGNES MARTINDoing what you were born to do … That’s the way to be happy.
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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To progress in life you must give up the things you do not like.
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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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One must see the ideal in one’s own mind. It is like a memory – an awareness -of perfection.
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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 once taught art to adults in a night course. I had a woman who painted her back yard, and she said it was the first time she had ever really looked at it. I think everyone sees beauty. Art is a way to respond
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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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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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My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They’re just horizontal lines.
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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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There’s not any hint of nature. And still everybody responds, I think.
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I think everyone sees beauty. Art is a way to respond
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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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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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