I’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
AGNES MARTINI think everyone sees beauty. Art is a way to respond
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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Give up doing the things that you do not like to do.
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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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My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They’re just horizontal lines.
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The adventurous state of mind is a high house… The joy of adventure is unaccountable.
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I think our minds respond to things beyond this world. Take beauty: it’s a very mysterious thing, isn’t it?
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Anything can be painted without representation.
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That which takes us by surprise-moments of happiness-that is inspiration.
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Doing what you were born to do … That’s the way to be happy.
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I want to say that they are not what they seem to be. I want to say that all that seems like fantastic mistakes are not mistake.
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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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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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They are immeasurable, completely lacking in substance. They are perfect and sublime. This is the subject matter of art.
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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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I hope I have made it clear that the work is about perfection as we are aware of it in our minds but that the paintings are very far from being perfect – completely removed in fact – even as we ourselves are.
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