Emma Cohen
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Emma Cohen
You must discover the art work that you like and realize the response that you make to it. You must especially know the response that you make to your own work. It is in this way that you discover your direction and the truth about yourself. If you do not discover your response to your own work you miss the reward. You must look at the work and kno... See more
Agnes Martin, Writings, 154
There are two parts of the mind. The outer mind that records facts and the inner mind that says "yes" and "no". When you think of something that you should do the inner mind says "yes" and you feel elated. We call this inspiration.
portrait of the artist and in development
Agnes Martin, Writings, 153
When I have a piece of writing in mind, what I have, in fact, is a mental bucket: an attractor for and generator of thought. It’s like a thematic gravity well, a magnet for what would otherwise be a mess of iron filings. I’ll read books differently and listen differently in conversations. In particular I’ll remember everything better; everything wi
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When we are disappointed by a pleasure which we have been expecting and which comes, the disappointment is be. cause we were expecting the future. And as soon as it is there, it is the present. We want the future to be there with. out ceasing to be future. This is an absurdity of which eternity alone is the cure.
Weil, Gravity & Grace, 66
In one of her notebooks [Arendt] asks: "Is there a way of thinking that is not tyrannical?"
From What Remains: The Collected Poems of Hannah Arendt, xxi
There is one great difference from man to man that I must mention. It is a difference in willingness to perform his function.
We, each of us, is born to a certain function. Sometimes our function is hidden from us by prejudice and fear. When an artist becomes aware of his exact function, that is when he knows, suddenly, exactly what he will do and h... See more
We, each of us, is born to a certain function. Sometimes our function is hidden from us by prejudice and fear. When an artist becomes aware of his exact function, that is when he knows, suddenly, exactly what he will do and h... See more
Agnes Martin, Writings, 97
In the night inspiration falls on the world like rain and penetrates our minds when we are asleep.
Agnes Martin, Writings, 118
We all believe in life.
We feel a certain devotion.
We feel called upon to live as good a life as we can.
We feel that we are in the dark and that even in darkness we must struggle to know what is best to do.
Not altogether but each one every moment.
We feel that we should not live in just the same way as our ancestors lived. We feel that we should take... See more
We feel a certain devotion.
We feel called upon to live as good a life as we can.
We feel that we are in the dark and that even in darkness we must struggle to know what is best to do.
Not altogether but each one every moment.
We feel that we should not live in just the same way as our ancestors lived. We feel that we should take... See more
Agnes Martin, Writings, 111