I’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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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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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There’s not any hint of nature. And still everybody responds, I think.
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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
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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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When you look in your mind you find it covered with a lot of rubbishy thoughts.
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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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The happiness of every living thing is what we want.
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I want to emphasize the fact that we all have the same experience and the same concern, but the artist must know exactly what the experience is. He must pursue the truth relentlessly.
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Happiness is being on the beam with life – to feel the pull of life
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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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Fulfill your potential. That’s the way to happiness.
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To progress in life you must give up the things you do not like.
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I hope I have made it clear that the work is about perfection as we are aware of it in our minds but that the paintings are very far from being perfect – completely removed in fact – even as we ourselves are.
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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 not about what is seen. They are about what is known forever in the mind.
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