My paintings are not about what is seen. They are about what is known forever in the mind.
AGNES MARTINMy paintings are not about what is seen. They are about what is known forever in the mind.
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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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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Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye, it is in the mind.
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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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You must find the things that you do like. The things that are acceptable to your mind.
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The worst thing you can think about when you’re working is yourself.
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I used to meditate until I learned to stop thinking.
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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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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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What we really want to do is serve happiness. We want everyone to be happy, never unhappy even for a moment. We want the animals to be happy.
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This is the attractiveness of artwork. It is adventurous, strenuous and joyful.
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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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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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They are immeasurable, completely lacking in substance. They are perfect and sublime. This is the subject matter of art.
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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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Fulfill your potential. That’s the way to happiness.
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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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The adventurous state of mind is a high house… The joy of adventure is unaccountable.
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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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It’s not about facts, it’s about feelings. It’s about remembering feelings and happiness.
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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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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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Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.
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I’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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A definition of art is that it makes concrete our most subtle emotions. I think the highest form of art is music. It’s the most abstract of all art expression.
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Happiness is being on the beam with life – to feel the pull of life
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