I watched an interview with Agnes Martin on the documentary series Art City recently (streaming on netflix) -here are a few of her many memorable quotes,
"I paint with my back to the world"
"I've painted a lot of paintings about happiness. I paint about happiness, innocence and beauty - the feelings that we have that go beyond the world - that have no worldly cause."
"Doesn't matter where you are - if you bring your mind to a stop you will feel a light, delicate happiness - that's tranquility"
"Everybody's rushing so much in this life, that they don't take time to really look and find out what their response is - even to their own work."
"You only pay attention to things that you like...and when you go to the museum you just look at the paintings you like - you don't look at the ones you don't like and stop and criticize and all that..."
~Agnes Martin
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her quote about going to the museum reminded me of this:
"Don’t focus on the one guy who hates you. You don’t go to the park and set your picnic down next to the only pile of dog shit."
from ShitMyDadSays http://twitter.com/shitmydadsays
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