This is the attractiveness of artwork. It is adventurous, strenuous and joyful.
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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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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I think everyone sees beauty. Art is a way to respond
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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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You have to penetrate these and hear what your mind is telling you to do. Such work is original work.
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The manipulation of materials in an artwork is a result of this state of mind.
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There’s not any hint of nature. And still everybody responds, I think.
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I want to emphasize the fact that we all have the same experience and the same concern, but the artist must know exactly what the experience is. He must pursue the truth relentlessly.
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Withdraws and makes itself up again pulls itself together with pride towers with pride rushes forward into imaginary conquest crashes in frustration withdraws with remorse and repentance pulls itself together with new resolution
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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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I used to meditate until I learned to stop thinking.
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The happiness of every living thing is what we want.
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The adventurous state of mind is a high house… The joy of adventure is unaccountable.
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My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They’re just horizontal lines.
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Give up doing the things that you do not like to do.
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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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