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.
AGNES MARTINWe all have the same concern, but the artist must know exactly what the experience is. He must pursue the truth relentlessly
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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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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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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I’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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This is the attractiveness of artwork. It is adventurous, strenuous and joyful.
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The happiness of every living thing is what we want.
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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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Anything can be painted without representation.
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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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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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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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When I first made a grid I happened to be thinking of the innocence of trees and then this grid came into my mind and I thought it represented innocence, and I still do, and so I painted it and then I was satisfied. I thought, this is my vision.
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There’s not any hint of nature. And still everybody responds, I think.
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Happiness is being on the beam with life – to feel the pull of life
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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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The manipulation of materials in an artwork is a result of this state of mind.
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