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.
AGNES MARTINGive up doing the things that you do not like to do.
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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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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It’s not about facts, it’s about feelings. It’s about remembering feelings and happiness.
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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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I’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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That which takes us by surprise-moments of happiness-that is inspiration.
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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 not about what is seen. They are about what is known forever in the mind.
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Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.
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The happiness of every living thing is what we want.
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There’s not any hint of nature. And still everybody responds, I think.
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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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It’s through discipline and tremendous disappointment and failure that you arrive at what it is you must paint.
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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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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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