The artist works by awareness of his own state of mind.
AGNES MARTINWhen 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.
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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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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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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Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye, it is in the mind.
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It’s not about facts, it’s about feelings. It’s about remembering feelings and happiness.
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Pollock was terrific. I think he freed himself of all kinds of worry about this world. Ran around and dripped, and then he managed to express ecstasy.
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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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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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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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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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Happiness is being on the beam with life – to feel the pull of life
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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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This is the attractiveness of artwork. It is adventurous, strenuous and joyful.
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They are immeasurable, completely lacking in substance. They are perfect and sublime. This is the subject matter of art.
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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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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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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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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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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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My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They’re just horizontal lines.
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I think everyone sees beauty. Art is a way to respond
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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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To progress in life you must give up the things you do not like.
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Give up doing the things that you do not like to do.
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Any material may be used but the theme is the same and the response is the same for all artwork.
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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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