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.
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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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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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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Once he sees this fact his feet are on the path. If you want to know the truth you will know it.
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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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I think everyone sees beauty. Art is a way to respond
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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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You can’t make a perfect painting. We can see perfection in our minds. But we can’t make a perfect painting.
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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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The enormous pitfall is devotion to oneself instead of to life. All works that are self-devoted are absolutely ineffective.
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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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They are immeasurable, completely lacking in substance. They are perfect and sublime. This is the subject matter of art.
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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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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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One must see the ideal in one’s own mind. It is like a memory – an awareness -of perfection.
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