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.
AGNES MARTINThe enormous pitfall is devotion to oneself instead of to life. All works that are self-devoted are absolutely ineffective.
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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I hope I have made it clear that the work is about perfection as we are aware of it in our minds but that the paintings are very far from being perfect – completely removed in fact – even as we ourselves are.
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This is the attractiveness of artwork. It is adventurous, strenuous and joyful.
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I think everyone sees beauty. Art is a way to respond
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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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The enormous pitfall is devotion to oneself instead of to life. All works that are self-devoted are absolutely ineffective.
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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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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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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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All that seems like error is not error; and it all has to be done. That which seems like a false step is the next step.
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I’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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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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Fulfill your potential. That’s the way to happiness.
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Doing what you were born to do … That’s the way to be happy.
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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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The adventurous state of mind is a high house… The joy of adventure is unaccountable.
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