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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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
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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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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It is commonly thought that everything that is can be put into words.
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Pollock was terrific. I think he freed himself of all kinds of worry about this world. Ran around and dripped, and then he managed to express ecstasy.
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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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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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When you look in your mind you find it covered with a lot of rubbishy thoughts.
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Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.
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This is the attractiveness of artwork. It is adventurous, strenuous and joyful.
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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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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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The worst thing you can think about when you’re working is yourself.
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The artist works by awareness of his own state of mind.
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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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My paintings are not about what is seen. They are about what is known forever in the mind.
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I’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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There’s not any hint of nature. And still everybody responds, I think.
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