You must find the things that you do like. The things that are acceptable to your mind.
AGNES MARTINI paint with my back to the world
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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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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It’s not about facts, it’s about feelings. It’s about remembering feelings and happiness.
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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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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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One must see the ideal in one’s own mind. It is like a memory – an awareness -of perfection.
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The manipulation of materials in an artwork is a result of this state of mind.
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Fulfill your potential. That’s the way to happiness.
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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’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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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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I want to emphasize the fact that we all have the same experience and the same concern, but the artist must know exactly what the experience is. He must pursue the truth relentlessly.
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This is the attractiveness of artwork. It is adventurous, strenuous and joyful.
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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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Happiness is being on the beam with life – to feel the pull of life
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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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