Beauty and happiness and life are all the same and they are pervasive, unattached and abstract and they are our only concern.
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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Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.
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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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There’s not any hint of nature. And still everybody responds, I think.
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The adventurous state of mind is a high house… The joy of adventure is unaccountable.
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The happiness of every living thing is what we want.
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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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Fulfill your potential. That’s the way to happiness.
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My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They’re just horizontal lines.
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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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That which takes us by surprise-moments of happiness-that is inspiration.
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I think everyone sees beauty. Art is a way to respond
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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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Pollock was terrific. I think he freed himself of all kinds of worry about this world. Ran around and dripped, and then he managed to express ecstasy.
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Anything can be painted without representation.
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I want to say that they are not what they seem to be. I want to say that all that seems like fantastic mistakes are not mistake.
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