“Everything is contemplated in the mind without meditation. We make a very complicated response. Just to look at a floating branch evokes very complicated objective and nonobjective responses. The artist must slow all this down, mentally. It is this mental experience that makes the representation of beauty possible.”

— Agnes Martin

1980 - 2000, The Skowhegan Lecture', 1987

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American artist 1912–2004

Agnes Martin (1912–2004) American artist

1980 - 2000, The Skowhegan Lecture', 1987

“Take beauty: it's a very mysterious thing, isn't it? I think it's a response in our minds to perfection... My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They're just horizontal lines. There's not any hint of nature. And still everybody responds, I think.”

Agnes Martin (1912–2004) American artist

1980 - 2000, Perfection Is in the Mind', 1995

“Love makes everything complicated.”

Elie Wiesel (1928–2016) writer, professor, political activist, Nobel Laureate, and Holocaust survivor

“It is a very physically and mentally torturous process. It goes 18-20 hours a day, and if you’re stoned during that whole period, you’re not going to make a good movie, because you just won’t have the stamina to physically and mentally do that. And it’s every day. So we didn’t get stoned making the record, never stoned on stage. But we were very disciplined artists about what we were doing. It didn’t magically happen. Well, it did magically happen, but not without effort.”

Cheech Marin (1946) American comedian, actor and writer

On how there’s a misconception that he’s like his stoner character in “Cheech Marin and Tommy Chong Are Not Their Characters: ‘It’s All for the Love of the Art’” https://www.thewrap.com/heres-the-biggest-misconception-about-cheech-and-chong/ in The Wrap (2018 Sep 14)

“The choice: the most responsible and complicated action in the world.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: (it) La scelta: l'azione più responsabile e complicata del mondo.
Source: prevale.net

“Actually, I am a very strong player. Mentally very tough. I just don't give up very easily. I make my opponent work very hard.”

Sania Nehwal (1990) Indian badminton player

"This interview of 18-yr-old Saina Nehwal will make you feel nostalgic" in The Bridge https://thebridge.in/badminton/this-interview-18-yr-old-saina-nehwal-will-make-you-feel-nostalgic/

“.. the idea that an artist is nothing unless he accepts the total responsibility for everything that he does.... by making a responsible move that he makes a statement... You can make a picture out of truth.”

Clyfford Still (1904–1980) American artist

1960s
Source: 'A period of Exploration', McChesney, as quoted in The New York school – the painters & sculptors of the fifties, Irving Sandler, Harper & Row, Publishers, 1978, p 35

“I felt that everything is beautiful, but [not? ] that which man tries intentionally to make beautiful; that the work of an ordinary bricklayer is more valid than the artwork of all but a very few artists.”

Ellsworth Kelly (1923–2015) American painter, sculptor, and printmaker

Quotes from 'Notes from 1969', Ellsworth Kelly; as quoted in the exhibition catalogue, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, 13 December
1969 - 1980

“Mental silence is the perfect response to a challenge.”

Vernon Howard (1918–1992) American writer

Cosmic Command

“The possibility of physical and mental collapse is now very real. No sympathy for the Devil, keep that in mind. Buy the ticket, take the ride.”

Hunter S. Thompson book Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Source: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

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