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.
AGNES MARTINI’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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You have to penetrate these and hear what your mind is telling you to do. Such work is original work.
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It’s not about facts, it’s about feelings. It’s about remembering feelings and happiness.
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Doing what you were born to do … That’s the way to be happy.
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They are immeasurable, completely lacking in substance. They are perfect and sublime. This is the subject matter of art.
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We all have the same concern, but the artist must know exactly what the experience is. He must pursue the truth relentlessly
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I think everyone sees beauty. Art is a way to respond
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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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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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I’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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I once taught art to adults in a night course. I had a woman who painted her back yard, and she said it was the first time she had ever really looked at it. I think everyone sees beauty. Art is a way to respond
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I think our minds respond to things beyond this world. Take beauty: it’s a very mysterious thing, isn’t it?
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Anything can be painted without representation.
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There’s not any hint of nature. And still everybody responds, I think.
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