You have to penetrate these and hear what your mind is telling you to do. Such work is original work.
AGNES MARTINThe artist works by awareness of his own state of mind.
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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I think everyone sees beauty. Art is a way to respond
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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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I’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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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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Happiness is being on the beam with life – to feel the pull of life
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The adventurous state of mind is a high house… The joy of adventure is unaccountable.
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Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.
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The manipulation of materials in an artwork is a result of this state of mind.
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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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The enormous pitfall is devotion to oneself instead of to life. All works that are self-devoted are absolutely ineffective.
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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
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You must find the things that you do like. The things that are acceptable to your mind.
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I paint with my back to the world
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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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They are immeasurable, completely lacking in substance. They are perfect and sublime. This is the subject matter of art.
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