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 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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The adventurous state of mind is a high house… The joy of adventure is unaccountable.
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I paint with my back to the world
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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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Any material may be used but the theme is the same and the response is the same for all artwork.
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Anything can be painted without representation.
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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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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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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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You must find the things that you do like. The things that are acceptable to your mind.
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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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The artist works by awareness of his own state of mind.
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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’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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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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Happiness is being on the beam with life – to feel the pull of life
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