The adventurous state of mind is a high house… The joy of adventure is unaccountable.
AGNES MARTINAny material may be used but the theme is the same and the response is the same for all artwork.
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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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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To progress in life you must give up the things you do not like.
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My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They’re just horizontal lines.
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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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You have to penetrate these and hear what your mind is telling you to do. Such work is original work.
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This is the attractiveness of artwork. It is adventurous, strenuous and joyful.
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I think it’s a response in our minds to perfection. It’s too bad, people not realizing that their minds expand beyond this world.
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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 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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That which takes us by surprise-moments of happiness-that is inspiration.
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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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The worst thing you can think about when you’re working is yourself.
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It’s not about facts, it’s about feelings. It’s about remembering feelings and happiness.
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The artist works by awareness of his own state of mind.
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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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