Any material may be used but the theme is the same and the response is the same for all artwork.
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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The adventurous state of mind is a high house… The joy of adventure is unaccountable.
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I’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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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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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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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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One must see the ideal in one’s own mind. It is like a memory – an awareness -of perfection.
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This is the attractiveness of artwork. It is adventurous, strenuous and joyful.
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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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There’s not any hint of nature. And still everybody responds, I think.
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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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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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When I think of art I think of beauty. Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye it is in the mind. In our minds there is awareness of perfection.
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The artist works by awareness of his own state of mind.
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I used to meditate until I learned to stop thinking.
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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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