"I paint with my back to the world"

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Source : Ned Rifkin, Agnes Martin, Edward Hirsch, Menil Collection (Houston, Tex.) (2002). “Agnès Martin: the nineties and beyond”, Hatje Cantz Pub

Agnes Martin

#World Quotes #Paint Quotes

“Those that walk with fear will always be too busy hiding.”
“I have often seen quite demented patients recognize and respond vividly to paintings and delight in the act of painting at a time when they are scarcely responsive, disoriented, and out of it.”
“I am so fidgety - I swear I have ADD - and I always need to be doing something or being outside, just playing sports.”
“I know what's what, and have always taken care of the main chance.”
“You don't get creative by staying in the same place.”
“I can tell it all in song: pathos, gladness, love, joy, unhappiness.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The sexual act is in time what the tiger is in space.”

Source : Georges Bataille (1988). “The accursed share: an essay on general economy”, Zone Books (NY)
“I know you lawyers can with ease, Twist words and meanings as you please; That language, by your skill made pliant, Will bend to favour every client; That 'tis the fee directs the sense, To make out either side's pretense.”

Source : John Gay, Marcus Walsh (2003). “Selected Poems”, p.85, Taylor & Francis

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