I often paint tranquility. If you stop thinking and rest, then a little happiness comes into your mind. At perfect rest you are comfortable.
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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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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Any material may be used but the theme is the same and the response is the same for all artwork.
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I think it’s a response in our minds to perfection. It’s too bad, people not realizing that their minds expand beyond this world.
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The happiness of every living thing is what we want.
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Anything can be painted without representation.
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I paint with my back to the world
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Fulfill your potential. That’s the way to happiness.
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I’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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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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The manipulation of materials in an artwork is a result of this state of mind.
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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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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 think everyone sees beauty. Art is a way to respond
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It is commonly thought that everything that is can be put into words.
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A definition of art is that it makes concrete our most subtle emotions. I think the highest form of art is music. It’s the most abstract of all art expression.
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