Happiness is being on the beam with life – to feel the pull of life
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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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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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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My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They’re just horizontal lines.
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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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It is commonly thought that everything that is can be put into words.
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Inspiration is there all the time. For everyone whose mind is not clouded over with thoughts whether they realize it or not.
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I once taught art to adults in a night course. I had a woman who painted her back yard, and she said it was the first time she had ever really looked at it. I think everyone sees beauty. Art is a way to respond
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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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The adventurous state of mind is a high house… The joy of adventure is unaccountable.
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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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You must find the things that you do like. The things that are acceptable to your mind.
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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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When you look in your mind you find it covered with a lot of rubbishy thoughts.
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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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