The manipulation of materials in an artwork is a result of this state of mind.
AGNES MARTINArt is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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Anything can be painted without representation.
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The artist works by awareness of his own state of mind.
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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’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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Happiness is being on the beam with life – to feel the pull of life
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My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They’re just horizontal lines.
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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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That which takes us by surprise-moments of happiness-that is inspiration.
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It would be an endless battle if it were all up to ego because it does not destroy and is not destroyed by itself It is like a wave it makes itself up,It rushes forward getting nowhere really it crashes
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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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Once he sees this fact his feet are on the path. If you want to know the truth you will know it.
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When I first made a grid I happened to be thinking of the innocence of trees and then this grid came into my mind and I thought it represented innocence, and I still do, and so I painted it and then I was satisfied. I thought, this is my vision.
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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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I think everyone sees beauty. Art is a way to respond
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There’s not any hint of nature. And still everybody responds, I think.
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