One must see the ideal in one’s own mind. It is like a memory – an awareness -of perfection.
AGNES MARTINThe worst thing you can think about when you’re working is yourself.
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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The Minimalists are idealist. They want to minimise themselves in favour of the ideal. But I just can’t. You see, my paintings are not cool.
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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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Any material may be used but the theme is the same and the response is the same for all artwork.
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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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You can’t make a perfect painting. We can see perfection in our minds. But we can’t make a perfect painting.
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Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.
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There’s not any hint of nature. And still everybody responds, I think.
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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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To progress in life you must give up the things you do not like.
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When I think of art I think of beauty. Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye it is in the mind. In our minds there is awareness of perfection.
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I’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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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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When you look in your mind you find it covered with a lot of rubbishy thoughts.
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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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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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