Nature is like parting a curtain, you go into it …. as you would cross an empty beach to look at the ocean.
AGNES MARTINBeauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye, it is in the mind.
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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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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Inspiration is there all the time. For everyone whose mind is not clouded over with thoughts whether they realize it or not.
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There’s not any hint of nature. And still everybody responds, I think.
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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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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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Doing what you were born to do … That’s the way to be happy.
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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 used to meditate until I learned to stop thinking.
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My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They’re just horizontal lines.
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One must see the ideal in one’s own mind. It is like a memory – an awareness -of perfection.
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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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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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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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I think everyone sees beauty. Art is a way to respond
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I think our minds respond to things beyond this world. Take beauty: it’s a very mysterious thing, isn’t it?
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Give up doing the things that you do not like to do.
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Happiness is being on the beam with life – to feel the pull of life
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When you look in your mind you find it covered with a lot of rubbishy thoughts.
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I would like my work to be recognized as being in the classical tradition (Coptic, Egyptian, Greek, Chinese), as representing the Ideal in the mind. Classical art cannot possibly be eclectic.
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The adventurous state of mind is a high house… The joy of adventure is unaccountable.
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Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.
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That which takes us by surprise-moments of happiness-that is inspiration.
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This is the attractiveness of artwork. It is adventurous, strenuous and joyful.
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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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I’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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It’s not about facts, it’s about feelings. It’s about remembering feelings and happiness.
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