The artist works by awareness of his own state of mind.
AGNES MARTINThey are immeasurable, completely lacking in substance. They are perfect and sublime. This is the subject matter of art.
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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There’s not any hint of nature. And still everybody responds, I think.
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Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.
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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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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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It is commonly thought that everything that is can be put into words.
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Fulfill your potential. That’s the way to happiness.
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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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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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I think everyone sees beauty. Art is a way to respond
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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 used to meditate until I learned to stop thinking.
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To progress in life you must give up the things you do not like.
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What we really want to do is serve happiness. We want everyone to be happy, never unhappy even for a moment. We want the animals to be happy.
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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’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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