The manipulation of materials in an artwork is a result of this state of mind.
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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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’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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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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The artist works by awareness of his own state of mind.
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To progress in life you must give up the things you do not like.
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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 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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Anything can be painted without representation.
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It is commonly thought that everything that is can be put into words.
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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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Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye, it is in the mind.
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There’s not any hint of nature. And still everybody responds, I think.
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Fulfill your potential. That’s the way to happiness.
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Doing what you were born to do … That’s the way to be happy.
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You can’t make a perfect painting. We can see perfection in our minds. But we can’t make a perfect painting.
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