Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.
AGNES MARTINI 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.
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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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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I often paint tranquility. If you stop thinking and rest, then a little happiness comes into your mind. At perfect rest you are comfortable.
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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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I’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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The artist works by awareness of his own state of mind.
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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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The adventurous state of mind is a high house… The joy of adventure is unaccountable.
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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 manipulation of materials in an artwork is a result of this state of mind.
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Doing what you were born to do … That’s the way to be happy.
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The happiness of every living thing is what we want.
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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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I’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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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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We all have the same concern, but the artist must know exactly what the experience is. He must pursue the truth relentlessly
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