We all have the same concern, but the artist must know exactly what the experience is. He must pursue the truth relentlessly
AGNES MARTINI’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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The artist works by awareness of his own state of mind.
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Any material may be used but the theme is the same and the response is the same for all artwork.
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Beauty and happiness and life are all the same and they are pervasive, unattached and abstract and they are our only concern.
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All that seems like error is not error; and it all has to be done. That which seems like a false step is the next step.
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Give up doing the things that you do not like to do.
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To progress in life you must give up the things you do not like.
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I want to say that they are not what they seem to be. I want to say that all that seems like fantastic mistakes are not mistake.
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It’s not about facts, it’s about feelings. It’s about remembering feelings and happiness.
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Withdraws and makes itself up again pulls itself together with pride towers with pride rushes forward into imaginary conquest crashes in frustration withdraws with remorse and repentance pulls itself together with new resolution
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One must see the ideal in one’s own mind. It is like a memory – an awareness -of perfection.
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What I say is that we’re capable of a transcendent response, and I think it makes us happy. And I do think beauty produces a transcendent response.
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Fulfill your potential. That’s the way to happiness.
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The happiness of every living thing is what we want.
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Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye, it is in the mind.
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I think it’s a response in our minds to perfection. It’s too bad, people not realizing that their minds expand beyond this world.
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