The adventurous state of mind is a high house… The joy of adventure is unaccountable.
AGNES MARTINThey are immeasurable, completely lacking in substance. They are perfect and sublime. This is the subject matter of art.
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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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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Happiness is being on the beam with life – to feel the pull of life
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I paint with my back to the world
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The happiness of every living thing is what we want.
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Pollock was terrific. I think he freed himself of all kinds of worry about this world. Ran around and dripped, and then he managed to express ecstasy.
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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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Any material may be used but the theme is the same and the response is the same for all artwork.
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The artist works by awareness of his own state of mind.
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Nature is like parting a curtain, you go into it …. as you would cross an empty beach to look at the ocean.
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There’s nobody living who couldn’t stand all afternoon in front of a waterfall …. Anyone who can sit on a stone in a field awhile can see my painting.
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What we really want to do is serve happiness. We want everyone to be happy, never unhappy even for a moment. We want the animals to be happy.
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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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I think our minds respond to things beyond this world. Take beauty: it’s a very mysterious thing, isn’t it?
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To progress in life you must give up the things you do not like.
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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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