I think our minds respond to things beyond this world. Take beauty: it’s a very mysterious thing, isn’t it?
AGNES MARTINIt’s through discipline and tremendous disappointment and failure that you arrive at what it is you must paint.
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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You must find the things that you do like. The things that are acceptable to your mind.
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I often paint tranquility. If you stop thinking and rest, then a little happiness comes into your mind. At perfect rest you are comfortable.
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I used to meditate until I learned to stop thinking.
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There’s not any hint of nature. And still everybody responds, I think.
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Inspiration is there all the time. For everyone whose mind is not clouded over with thoughts whether they realize it or not.
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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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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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Once he sees this fact his feet are on the path. If you want to know the truth you will know it.
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It is commonly thought that everything that is can be put into words.
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The worst thing you can think about when you’re working is yourself.
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Nature is like parting a curtain, you go into it …. as you would cross an empty beach to look at the ocean.
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When you look in your mind you find it covered with a lot of rubbishy thoughts.
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My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They’re just horizontal lines.
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The manipulation of materials in an artwork is a result of this state of mind.
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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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