"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. Nature is like parting a curtain, you go into it .... as you would cross an empty beach to look at the ocean."

-- Agnes Martin

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“I'm not politically motivated. I used to be - passionately. I used to be very Left wing. Then I went very Right wing, and now I rest somewhere in the middle.”
“the various earth odors all have a separate tale to tell, and the leaf mold of the woods bears a wholly different fragrance from that of the soil under pasture turf, or the breath that the garden gives off in great sighs of relief when it is relaxed and refreshed by a summer shower.”
“Where I come from Nobody knows; And where I'm going Everything goes. The wind blows, The sea flows - And nobody knows.”
“The mania is like wasps under the skin, like my head's going to explode with ideas.”
“Where I get my energy is: 'How can I make it better?”

Source : "Smooth Moves" by Alexandra Jacobs, www.newyorker.com. March 28, 2011.
“Every time I started a business and the people told me I was an idiot, I ended up making a lot of money. Si Redd used to say me, "Boy, you gotta be where they ain't." What that means is that you find areas of low competition because high competition means lower margins, and lower margins mean less profit. So we were always looking for places where we can be unique. If the thinking is out-of-the-box, people may not understand because they have not seen it before... Therefore you are an idiot.”
“Usually redemption implies rescue - being saved. What were you being saved from?' he inquired, his voice carefully neutral. 'Ugliness.”
“In a time of rapid change, standing still is the most dangerous course of action.”

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