I think everyone sees beauty. Art is a way to respond
AGNES MARTINIt’s through discipline and tremendous disappointment and failure that you arrive at what it is you must paint.
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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Fulfill your potential. That’s the way to happiness.
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That which takes us by surprise-moments of happiness-that is inspiration.
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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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I used to meditate until I learned to stop thinking.
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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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We all have the same concern, but the artist must know exactly what the experience is. He must pursue the truth relentlessly
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You can’t make a perfect painting. We can see perfection in our minds. But we can’t make a perfect painting.
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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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My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They’re just horizontal lines.
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When you look in your mind you find it covered with a lot of rubbishy thoughts.
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Happiness is being on the beam with life – to feel the pull of life
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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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You have to penetrate these and hear what your mind is telling you to do. Such work is original work.
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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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This is the attractiveness of artwork. It is adventurous, strenuous and joyful.
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