Pollock was terrific. I think he freed himself of all kinds of worry about this world. Ran around and dripped, and then he managed to express ecstasy.
AGNES MARTINThe worst thing you can think about when you’re working is yourself.
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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The manipulation of materials in an artwork is a result of this state of mind.
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Doing what you were born to do … That’s the way to be happy.
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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 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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It’s not about facts, it’s about feelings. It’s about remembering feelings and happiness.
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I think everyone sees beauty. Art is a way to respond
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I’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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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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It’s through discipline and tremendous disappointment and failure that you arrive at what it is you must paint.
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Happiness is being on the beam with life – to feel the pull of life
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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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You have to penetrate these and hear what your mind is telling you to do. Such work is original work.
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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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Anything can be painted without representation.
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