Fulfill your potential. That’s the way to happiness.
AGNES MARTIN
The artist works by awareness of his own state of mind.
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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Fulfill your potential. That’s the way to happiness.
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I’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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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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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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My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They’re just horizontal lines.
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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 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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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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It is commonly thought that everything that is can be put into words.
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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 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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