I paint with my back to the world
AGNES MARTINYou have to penetrate these and hear what your mind is telling you to do. Such work is original work.
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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I would like my work to be recognized as being in the classical tradition (Coptic, Egyptian, Greek, Chinese), as representing the Ideal in the mind. Classical art cannot possibly be eclectic.
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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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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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It is commonly thought that everything that is can be put into words.
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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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My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They’re just horizontal lines.
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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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Fulfill your potential. That’s the way to happiness.
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Beauty and happiness and life are all the same and they are pervasive, unattached and abstract and they are our only concern.
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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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To progress in life you must give up the things you do not like.
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The artist works by awareness of his own state of mind.
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What I say is that we’re capable of a transcendent response, and I think it makes us happy. And I do think beauty produces a transcendent response.
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I think everyone sees beauty. Art is a way to respond
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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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