I often paint tranquility. If you stop thinking and rest, then a little happiness comes into your mind. At perfect rest you are comfortable.
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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The enormous pitfall is devotion to oneself instead of to life. All works that are self-devoted are absolutely ineffective.
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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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Any material may be used but the theme is the same and the response is the same for all artwork.
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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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I’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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Pollock was terrific. I think he freed himself of all kinds of worry about this world. Ran around and dripped, and then he managed to express ecstasy.
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Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.
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That which takes us by surprise-moments of happiness-that is inspiration.
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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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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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It’s through discipline and tremendous disappointment and failure that you arrive at what it is you must paint.
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This is the attractiveness of artwork. It is adventurous, strenuous and joyful.
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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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The manipulation of materials in an artwork is a result of this state of mind.
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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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