You can’t make a perfect painting. We can see perfection in our minds. But we can’t make a perfect painting.
AGNES MARTINDoing what you were born to do … That’s the way to be happy.
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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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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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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I used to meditate until I learned to stop thinking.
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This is the attractiveness of artwork. It is adventurous, strenuous and joyful.
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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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Give up doing the things that you do not like to do.
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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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Any material may be used but the theme is the same and the response is the same for all artwork.
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There’s not any hint of nature. And still everybody responds, I think.
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I paint with my back to the world
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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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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 happiness of every living thing is what we want.
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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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When you look in your mind you find it covered with a lot of rubbishy thoughts.
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