The worst thing you can think about when you’re working is yourself.
AGNES MARTINOne must see the ideal in one’s own mind. It is like a memory – an awareness -of perfection.
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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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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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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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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Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye, it is in the mind.
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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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They are immeasurable, completely lacking in substance. They are perfect and sublime. This is the subject matter of art.
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The manipulation of materials in an artwork is a result of this state of mind.
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When you look in your mind you find it covered with a lot of rubbishy thoughts.
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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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You have to penetrate these and hear what your mind is telling you to do. Such work is original work.
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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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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 think our minds respond to things beyond this world. Take beauty: it’s a very mysterious thing, isn’t it?
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The adventurous state of mind is a high house… The joy of adventure is unaccountable.
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All that seems like error is not error; and it all has to be done. That which seems like a false step is the next step.
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