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.
AGNES MARTINWithdraws 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
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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The enormous pitfall is devotion to oneself instead of to life. All works that are self-devoted are absolutely ineffective.
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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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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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My paintings are not about what is seen. They are about what is known forever in the mind.
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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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The adventurous state of mind is a high house… The joy of adventure is unaccountable.
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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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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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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 think our minds respond to things beyond this world. Take beauty: it’s a very mysterious thing, isn’t it?
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Give up doing the things that you do not like to do.
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The worst thing you can think about when you’re working is yourself.
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The manipulation of materials in an artwork is a result of this state of mind.
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To progress in life you must give up the things you do not like.
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There’s not any hint of nature. And still everybody responds, I think.
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Doing what you were born to do … That’s the way to be happy.
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That which takes us by surprise-moments of happiness-that is inspiration.
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The happiness of every living thing is what we want.
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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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Happiness is being on the beam with life – to feel the pull of life
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Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.
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It’s through discipline and tremendous disappointment and failure that you arrive at what it is you must paint.
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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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Any material may be used but the theme is the same and the response is the same for all artwork.
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