One must see the ideal in one’s own mind. It is like a memory – an awareness -of perfection.
AGNES MARTINThere’s not any hint of nature. And still everybody responds, I think.
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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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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The adventurous state of mind is a high house… The joy of adventure is unaccountable.
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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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My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They’re just horizontal lines.
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When you look in your mind you find it covered with a lot of rubbishy thoughts.
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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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It’s through discipline and tremendous disappointment and failure that you arrive at what it is you must paint.
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The happiness of every living thing is what we want.
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This is the attractiveness of artwork. It is adventurous, strenuous and joyful.
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It is commonly thought that everything that is can be put into words.
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There’s not any hint of nature. And still everybody responds, I think.
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You can’t make a perfect painting. We can see perfection in our minds. But we can’t make a perfect painting.
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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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Anything can be painted without representation.
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