Nature is like parting a curtain, you go into it …. as you would cross an empty beach to look at the ocean.
AGNES MARTINI’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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To progress in life you must give up the things you do not like.
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The happiness of every living thing is what we want.
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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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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 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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Happiness is being on the beam with life – to feel the pull of life
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Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.
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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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When 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.
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I paint with my back to the world
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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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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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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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My paintings are not about what is seen. They are about what is known forever in the mind.
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