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.
AGNES MARTINI 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
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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Happiness is being on the beam with life – to feel the pull of life
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You must find the things that you do like. The things that are acceptable to your mind.
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To progress in life you must give up the things you do not like.
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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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It is commonly thought that everything that is can be put into words.
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It’s not about facts, it’s about feelings. It’s about remembering feelings and happiness.
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Doing what you were born to do … That’s the way to be happy.
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This is the attractiveness of artwork. It is adventurous, strenuous and joyful.
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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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I paint with my back to the world
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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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Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye, it is in the mind.
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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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I think everyone sees beauty. Art is a way to respond
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That which takes us by surprise-moments of happiness-that is inspiration.
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