The enormous pitfall is devotion to oneself instead of to life. All works that are self-devoted are absolutely ineffective.
AGNES MARTINA 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.
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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It is commonly thought that everything that is can be put into words.
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Doing what you were born to do … That’s the way to be happy.
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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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I think everyone sees beauty. Art is a way to respond
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It’s not about facts, it’s about feelings. It’s about remembering feelings and happiness.
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The manipulation of materials in an artwork is a result of this state of mind.
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Withdraws 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
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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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This is the attractiveness of artwork. It is adventurous, strenuous and joyful.
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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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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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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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You must find the things that you do like. The things that are acceptable to your mind.
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You can’t make a perfect painting. We can see perfection in our minds. But we can’t make a perfect painting.
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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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