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.
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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Give up doing the things that you do not like to do.
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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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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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My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They’re just horizontal lines.
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That which takes us by surprise-moments of happiness-that is inspiration.
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I want to emphasize the fact that we all have the same experience and the same concern, but the artist must know exactly what the experience is. He must pursue the truth relentlessly.
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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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The worst thing you can think about when you’re working is yourself.
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It’s not about facts, it’s about feelings. It’s about remembering feelings and happiness.
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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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It would be an endless battle if it were all up to ego because it does not destroy and is not destroyed by itself It is like a wave it makes itself up,It rushes forward getting nowhere really it crashes
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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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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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One must see the ideal in one’s own mind. It is like a memory – an awareness -of perfection.
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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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