I think everyone sees beauty. Art is a way to respond
AGNES MARTINI often paint tranquility. If you stop thinking and rest, then a little happiness comes into your mind. At perfect rest you are comfortable.
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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You have to penetrate these and hear what your mind is telling you to do. Such work is original work.
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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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The worst thing you can think about when you’re working is yourself.
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That which takes us by surprise-moments of happiness-that is inspiration.
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Fulfill your potential. That’s the way to happiness.
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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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I’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They’re just horizontal lines.
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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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There’s not any hint of nature. And still everybody responds, I think.
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Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye, it is in the mind.
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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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Happiness is being on the beam with life – to feel the pull of life
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The manipulation of materials in an artwork is a result of this state of mind.
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I want to emphasize the fact that we all have the same experience and the same concern, but the artist must know exactly what the experience is. He must pursue the truth relentlessly.
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