My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They’re just horizontal lines.
AGNES MARTINI 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
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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My paintings are not about what is seen. They are about what is known forever in the mind.
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Happiness is being on the beam with life – to feel the pull of life
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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 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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There’s nobody living who couldn’t stand all afternoon in front of a waterfall …. Anyone who can sit on a stone in a field awhile can see my painting.
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It is commonly thought that everything that is can be put into words.
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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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They are immeasurable, completely lacking in substance. They are perfect and sublime. This is the subject matter of art.
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To progress in life you must give up the things you do not like.
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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
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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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Fulfill your potential. That’s the way to happiness.
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I think everyone sees beauty. Art is a way to respond
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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 used to meditate until I learned to stop thinking.
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