I used to meditate until I learned to stop thinking.
AGNES MARTINYou can’t make a perfect painting. We can see perfection in our minds. But we can’t make a perfect painting.
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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Give up doing the things that you do not like to do.
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The happiness of every living thing is what we want.
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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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The adventurous state of mind is a high house… The joy of adventure is unaccountable.
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The worst thing you can think about when you’re working is yourself.
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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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All 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.
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I’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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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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We all have the same concern, but the artist must know exactly what the experience is. He must pursue the truth relentlessly
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I paint with my back to the world
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This is the attractiveness of artwork. It is adventurous, strenuous and joyful.
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Happiness is being on the beam with life – to feel the pull of life
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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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It is commonly thought that everything that is can be put into words.
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