I’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
AGNES MARTINI often paint tranquility. If you stop thinking and rest, then a little happiness comes into your mind. At perfect rest you are comfortable.
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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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 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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The enormous pitfall is devotion to oneself instead of to life. All works that are self-devoted are absolutely ineffective.
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What I say is that we’re capable of a transcendent response, and I think it makes us happy. And I do think beauty produces a transcendent response.
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When you look in your mind you find it covered with a lot of rubbishy thoughts.
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I think everyone sees beauty. Art is a way to respond
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It’s not about facts, it’s about feelings. It’s about remembering feelings and happiness.
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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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Any material may be used but the theme is the same and the response is the same for all artwork.
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The happiness of every living thing is what we want.
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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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It’s through discipline and tremendous disappointment and failure that you arrive at what it is you must paint.
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Doing what you were born to do … That’s the way to be happy.
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The artist works by awareness of his own state of mind.
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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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