When you look in your mind you find it covered with a lot of rubbishy thoughts.
AGNES MARTINI would like my work to be recognized as being in the classical tradition (Coptic, Egyptian, Greek, Chinese), as representing the Ideal in the mind. Classical art cannot possibly be eclectic.
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.
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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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The happiness of every living thing is what we want.
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I want to emphasize the fact that we all have the same experience and the same concern, but the artist must know exactly what the experience is. He must pursue the truth relentlessly.
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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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One must see the ideal in one’s own mind. It is like a memory – an awareness -of perfection.
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I would like my work to be recognized as being in the classical tradition (Coptic, Egyptian, Greek, Chinese), as representing the Ideal in the mind. Classical art cannot possibly be eclectic.
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My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They’re just horizontal lines.
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The worst thing you can think about when you’re working is yourself.
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You can’t make a perfect painting. We can see perfection in our minds. But we can’t make a perfect painting.
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When I first made a grid I happened to be thinking of the innocence of trees and then this grid came into my mind and I thought it represented innocence, and I still do, and so I painted it and then I was satisfied. I thought, this is my vision.
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That which takes us by surprise-moments of happiness-that is inspiration.
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It’s not about facts, it’s about feelings. It’s about remembering feelings and happiness.
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To progress in life you must give up the things you do not like.
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I’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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