Any material may be used but the theme is the same and the response is the same for all artwork.
AGNES MARTINI 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.
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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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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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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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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To progress in life you must give up the things you do not like.
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I used to meditate until I learned to stop thinking.
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The manipulation of materials in an artwork is a result of this state of mind.
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I’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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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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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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The artist works by awareness of his own state of mind.
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Anything can be painted without representation.
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It’s not about facts, it’s about feelings. It’s about remembering feelings and happiness.
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The enormous pitfall is devotion to oneself instead of to life. All works that are self-devoted are absolutely ineffective.
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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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The adventurous state of mind is a high house… The joy of adventure is unaccountable.
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