The manipulation of materials in an artwork is a result of this state of mind.
AGNES MARTINAll 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.
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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Nature is like parting a curtain, you go into it …. as you would cross an empty beach to look at the ocean.
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When you look in your mind you find it covered with a lot of rubbishy thoughts.
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It’s not about facts, it’s about feelings. It’s about remembering feelings and happiness.
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Give up doing the things that you do not like to do.
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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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Doing what you were born to do … That’s the way to be happy.
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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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I paint with my back to the world
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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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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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I’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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The worst thing you can think about when you’re working is yourself.
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It is commonly thought that everything that is can be put into words.
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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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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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