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 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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Happiness is being on the beam with life – to feel the pull of life
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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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You have to penetrate these and hear what your mind is telling you to do. Such work is original work.
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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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Any material may be used but the theme is the same and the response is the same for all artwork.
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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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It’s through discipline and tremendous disappointment and failure that you arrive at what it is you must paint.
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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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Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye, it is in the mind.
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To progress in life you must give up the things you do not like.
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It’s not about facts, it’s about feelings. It’s about remembering feelings and happiness.
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The adventurous state of mind is a high house… The joy of adventure is unaccountable.
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I think everyone sees beauty. Art is a way to respond
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This is the attractiveness of artwork. It is adventurous, strenuous and joyful.
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