They are immeasurable, completely lacking in substance. They are perfect and sublime. This is the subject matter of art.
AGNES MARTINI’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.
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Anything can be painted without representation.
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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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Fulfill your potential. That’s the way to happiness.
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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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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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When you look in your mind you find it covered with a lot of rubbishy thoughts.
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The happiness of every living thing is what we want.
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This is the attractiveness of artwork. It is adventurous, strenuous and joyful.
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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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There’s not any hint of nature. And still everybody responds, I think.
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The worst thing you can think about when you’re working is yourself.
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The adventurous state of mind is a high house… The joy of adventure is unaccountable.
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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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