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.
AGNES MARTIN
It’s through discipline and tremendous disappointment and failure that you arrive at what it is you must paint.
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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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The artist works by awareness of his own state of mind.
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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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The enormous pitfall is devotion to oneself instead of to life. All works that are self-devoted are absolutely ineffective.
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It’s through discipline and tremendous disappointment and failure that you arrive at what it is you must paint.
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To progress in life you must give up the things you do not like.
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When you look in your mind you find it covered with a lot of rubbishy thoughts.
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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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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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I 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.
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My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They’re just horizontal lines.
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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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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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