The manipulation of materials in an artwork is a result of this state of mind.
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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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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Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye, it is in the mind.
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Any material may be used but the theme is the same and the response is the same for all artwork.
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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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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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The artist works by awareness of his own state of mind.
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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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Happiness is being on the beam with life – to feel the pull of life
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I’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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Fulfill your potential. That’s the way to happiness.
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The happiness of every living thing is what we want.
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Give up doing the things that you do not like to do.
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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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