You can’t make a perfect painting. We can see perfection in our minds. But we can’t make a perfect painting.
AGNES MARTINI think our minds respond to things beyond this world. Take beauty: it’s a very mysterious thing, isn’t it?
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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Inspiration is there all the time. For everyone whose mind is not clouded over with thoughts whether they realize it or not.
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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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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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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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The artist works by awareness of his own state of mind.
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I would like my work to be recognized as being in the classical tradition (Coptic, Egyptian, Greek, Chinese), as representing the Ideal in the mind. Classical art cannot possibly be eclectic.
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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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I’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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I think everyone sees beauty. Art is a way to respond
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The adventurous state of mind is a high house… The joy of adventure is unaccountable.
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The manipulation of materials in an artwork is a result of this state of mind.
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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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The enormous pitfall is devotion to oneself instead of to life. All works that are self-devoted are absolutely ineffective.
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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.
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