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Agnes Martin

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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Art Aware Hope Made Mind Ourself Perfect Perfection
It’s through discipline and tremendous disappointment and failure that you arrive at what it is you must paint.
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Arrive Disappointment Discipline Failure Must Paint Through
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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Concern Exactly Experience Pursue Relentlessly Same Truth
That which takes us by surprise-moments of happiness-that is inspiration.
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Art Happiness Inspiration Moment Surprise Take
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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Adult Art Course Night Once Taught Think Thinking
When I first made a grid I happened to be thinking of the innocence of trees and then this grid came into my mind and I thought it represented innocence, and I still do, and so I painted it and then I was satisfied. I thought, this is my vision.
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First Grid Happenedm Innocense Made Mind Satisfy Think Thinking Tree
The worst thing you can think about when you’re working is yourself.
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Think Thinking Working Worst Yourself
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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Art Awareness Beauty Eye Life Mystery Perfection Think
It is commonly thought that everything that is can be put into words.
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Commonly Everything Put Thought Word
The enormous pitfall is devotion to oneself instead of to life. All works that are self-devoted are absolutely ineffective.
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Devotion Enormous Instead Life Oneself Pitfall Self
Give up doing the things that you do not like to do.
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Do Doing Give Like Thing
They are immeasurable, completely lacking in substance. They are perfect and sublime. This is the subject matter of art.
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Art Completely Lacking Memory Perfect Subject Sublime Substance
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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Art Beauty Capable Happy Make Response Thinking Transcendent Transendemt
One must see the ideal in one’s own mind. It is like a memory – an awareness -of perfection.
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Awareness Idea Memory Mind Musit One Own Perfection
It’s not about facts, it’s about feelings. It’s about remembering feelings and happiness.
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Art Fact Feeling Happiness Remembering Thinking
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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Beyond Expand Mind People Perfection Realizing Response World

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