It would be an endless battle if it were all up to ego because it does not destroy and is not destroyed by itself It is like a wave it makes itself up,It rushes forward getting nowhere really it crashes
AGNES MARTINIt would be an endless battle if it were all up to ego because it does not destroy and is not destroyed by itself It is like a wave it makes itself up,It rushes forward getting nowhere really it crashes
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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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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My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They’re just horizontal lines.
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When you look in your mind you find it covered with a lot of rubbishy thoughts.
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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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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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That which takes us by surprise-moments of happiness-that is inspiration.
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I think everyone sees beauty. Art is a way to respond
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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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The Minimalists are idealist. They want to minimise themselves in favour of the ideal. But I just can’t. You see, my paintings are not cool.
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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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One must see the ideal in one’s own mind. It is like a memory – an awareness -of perfection.
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I’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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A definition of art is that it makes concrete our most subtle emotions. I think the highest form of art is music. It’s the most abstract of all art expression.
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Doing what you were born to do … That’s the way to be happy.
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