There’s not any hint of nature. And still everybody responds, I think.
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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.
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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There’s not any hint of nature. And still everybody responds, I think.
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Doing what you were born to do … That’s the way to be happy.
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My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They’re just horizontal lines.
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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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The artist works by awareness of his own state of mind.
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Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.
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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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You must find the things that you do like. The things that are acceptable to your mind.
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I’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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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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I would like my work to be recognized as being in the classical tradition (Coptic, Egyptian, Greek, Chinese), as representing the Ideal in the mind. Classical art cannot possibly be eclectic.
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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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Nature is like parting a curtain, you go into it …. as you would cross an empty beach to look at the ocean.
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