I once taught art to adults in a night course. I had a woman who painted her back yard, and she said it was the first time she had ever really looked at it. I think everyone sees beauty. Art is a way to respond
AGNES MARTINIt is commonly thought that everything that is can be put into words.
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To progress in life you must give up the things you do not like.
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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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The manipulation of materials in an artwork is a result of this state of mind.
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It is commonly thought that everything that is can be put into words.
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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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I’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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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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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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What I say is that we’re capable of a transcendent response, and I think it makes us happy. And I do think beauty produces a transcendent response.
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This is the attractiveness of artwork. It is adventurous, strenuous and joyful.
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Doing what you were born to do … That’s the way to be happy.
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That which takes us by surprise-moments of happiness-that is inspiration.
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I want to say that they are not what they seem to be. I want to say that all that seems like fantastic mistakes are not mistake.
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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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Fulfill your potential. That’s the way to happiness.
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