This is the attractiveness of artwork. It is adventurous, strenuous and joyful.
AGNES MARTINInspiration is there all the time. For everyone whose mind is not clouded over with thoughts whether they realize it or not.
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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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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One must see the ideal in one’s own mind. It is like a memory – an awareness -of perfection.
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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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There’s nobody living who couldn’t stand all afternoon in front of a waterfall …. Anyone who can sit on a stone in a field awhile can see my painting.
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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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The manipulation of materials in an artwork is a result of this state of mind.
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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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Give up doing the things that you do not like to do.
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Inspiration is there all the time. For everyone whose mind is not clouded over with thoughts whether they realize it or not.
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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 used to meditate until I learned to stop thinking.
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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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There’s not any hint of nature. And still everybody responds, I think.
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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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When you look in your mind you find it covered with a lot of rubbishy thoughts.
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