The manipulation of materials in an artwork is a result of this state of mind.
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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It’s through discipline and tremendous disappointment and failure that you arrive at what it is you must paint.
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Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.
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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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I paint with my back to the world
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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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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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One must see the ideal in one’s own mind. It is like a memory – an awareness -of perfection.
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It is commonly thought that everything that is can be put into words.
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You have to penetrate these and hear what your mind is telling you to do. Such work is original work.
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It’s not about facts, it’s about feelings. It’s about remembering feelings and happiness.
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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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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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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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When you look in your mind you find it covered with a lot of rubbishy thoughts.
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I used to meditate until I learned to stop thinking.
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Anything can be painted without representation.
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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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Doing what you were born to do … That’s the way to be happy.
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I think everyone sees beauty. Art is a way to respond
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My paintings are not about what is seen. They are about what is known forever in the mind.
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The artist works by awareness of his own state of mind.
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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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I’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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Fulfill your potential. That’s the way to happiness.
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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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Withdraws and makes itself up again pulls itself together with pride towers with pride rushes forward into imaginary conquest crashes in frustration withdraws with remorse and repentance pulls itself together with new resolution
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