We all have the same concern, but the artist must know exactly what the experience is. He must pursue the truth relentlessly
AGNES MARTINI’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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Fulfill your potential. That’s the way to happiness.
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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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My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They’re just horizontal lines.
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Anything can be painted without representation.
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It is commonly thought that everything that is can be put into words.
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That which takes us by surprise-moments of happiness-that is inspiration.
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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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There’s not any hint of nature. And still everybody responds, I think.
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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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Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye, it is in the mind.
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The artist works by awareness of his own state of mind.
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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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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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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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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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