It’s not about facts, it’s about feelings. It’s about remembering feelings and happiness.
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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Anything can be painted without representation.
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Doing what you were born to do … That’s the way to be happy.
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I often paint tranquility. If you stop thinking and rest, then a little happiness comes into your mind. At perfect rest you are comfortable.
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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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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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I paint with my back to the world
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It is commonly thought that everything that is can be put into words.
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They are immeasurable, completely lacking in substance. They are perfect and sublime. This is the subject matter of art.
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The Minimalists are idealist. They want to minimise themselves in favour of the ideal. But I just can’t. You see, my paintings are not cool.
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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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Beauty and happiness and life are all the same and they are pervasive, unattached and abstract and they are our only concern.
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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’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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To progress in life you must give up the things you do not like.
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Fulfill your potential. That’s the way to happiness.
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