Nature is like parting a curtain, you go into it …. as you would cross an empty beach to look at the ocean.
AGNES MARTINWhen you look in your mind you find it covered with a lot of rubbishy thoughts.
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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When I first made a grid I happened to be thinking of the innocence of trees and then this grid came into my mind and I thought it represented innocence, and I still do, and so I painted it and then I was satisfied. I thought, this is my vision.
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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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My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They’re just horizontal lines.
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The artist works by awareness of his own state of mind.
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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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Any material may be used but the theme is the same and the response is the same for all artwork.
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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 think our minds respond to things beyond this world. Take beauty: it’s a very mysterious thing, isn’t it?
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Doing what you were born to do … That’s the way to be happy.
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I think everyone sees beauty. Art is a way to respond
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Happiness is being on the beam with life – to feel the pull of life
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Anything can be painted without representation.
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The happiness of every living thing is what we want.
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I once taught art to adults in a night course. I had a woman who painted her back yard, and she said it was the first time she had ever really looked at it. I think everyone sees beauty. Art is a way to respond
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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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