To progress in life you must give up the things you do not like.
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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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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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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I hope I have made it clear that the work is about perfection as we are aware of it in our minds but that the paintings are very far from being perfect – completely removed in fact – even as we ourselves are.
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That which takes us by surprise-moments of happiness-that is inspiration.
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I’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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Anything can be painted without representation.
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This is the attractiveness of artwork. It is adventurous, strenuous and joyful.
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The happiness of every living thing is what we want.
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Once he sees this fact his feet are on the path. If you want to know the truth you will know it.
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You have to penetrate these and hear what your mind is telling you to do. Such work is original work.
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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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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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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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It’s not about facts, it’s about feelings. It’s about remembering feelings and happiness.
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One must see the ideal in one’s own mind. It is like a memory – an awareness -of perfection.
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