There’s nobody living who couldn’t stand all afternoon in front of a waterfall …. Anyone who can sit on a stone in a field awhile can see my painting.
AGNES MARTINAnything can be painted without representation.
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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Inspiration is there all the time. For everyone whose mind is not clouded over with thoughts whether they realize it or not.
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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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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 not about facts, it’s about feelings. It’s about remembering feelings and happiness.
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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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Give up doing the things that you do not like to do.
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Withdraws and makes itself up again pulls itself together with pride towers with pride rushes forward into imaginary conquest crashes in frustration withdraws with remorse and repentance pulls itself together with new resolution
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The happiness of every living thing is what we want.
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You must find the things that you do like. The things that are acceptable to your mind.
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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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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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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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My paintings are not about what is seen. They are about what is known forever in the mind.
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Anything can be painted without representation.
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