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
AGNES MARTINThe enormous pitfall is devotion to oneself instead of to life. All works that are self-devoted are absolutely ineffective.
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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Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye, it is in the mind.
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The adventurous state of mind is a high house… The joy of adventure is unaccountable.
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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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To progress in life you must give up the things you do not like.
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It is commonly thought that everything that is can be put into words.
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This is the attractiveness of artwork. It is adventurous, strenuous and joyful.
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Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.
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Give up doing the things that you do not like to do.
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I’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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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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They are immeasurable, completely lacking in substance. They are perfect and sublime. This is the subject matter of art.
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I think our minds respond to things beyond this world. Take beauty: it’s a very mysterious thing, isn’t it?
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I’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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