Happiness is being on the beam with life – to feel the pull of life
AGNES MARTINThe manipulation of materials in an artwork is a result of this state of mind.
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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Give up doing the things that you do not like to do.
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I think everyone sees beauty. Art is a way to respond
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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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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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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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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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It’s through discipline and tremendous disappointment and failure that you arrive at what it is you must paint.
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I used to meditate until I learned to stop thinking.
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Anything can be painted without representation.
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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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Any material may be used but the theme is the same and the response is the same for all artwork.
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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.
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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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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 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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