Happiness is being on the beam with life – to feel the pull of life
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
-
-
Any material may be used but the theme is the same and the response is the same for all artwork.
AGNES MARTIN -
Fulfill your potential. That’s the way to happiness.
AGNES MARTIN -
Anything can be painted without representation.
AGNES MARTIN -
The happiness of every living thing is what we want.
AGNES MARTIN -
The artist works by awareness of his own state of mind.
AGNES MARTIN -
We all have the same concern, but the artist must know exactly what the experience is. He must pursue the truth relentlessly
AGNES MARTIN -
Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye, it is in the mind.
AGNES MARTIN -
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.
AGNES MARTIN -
The adventurous state of mind is a high house… The joy of adventure is unaccountable.
AGNES MARTIN -
I once taught art to adults in a night course. I had a woman who painted her back yard, and she said it was the first time she had ever really looked at it. I think everyone sees beauty. Art is a way to respond
AGNES MARTIN -
My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They’re just horizontal lines.
AGNES MARTIN -
When you look in your mind you find it covered with a lot of rubbishy thoughts.
AGNES MARTIN -
When I first made a grid I happened to be thinking of the innocence of trees and then this grid came into my mind and I thought it represented innocence, and I still do, and so I painted it and then I was satisfied. I thought, this is my vision.
AGNES MARTIN -
My paintings are not about what is seen. They are about what is known forever in the mind.
AGNES MARTIN -
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.
AGNES MARTIN