It is commonly thought that everything that is can be put into words.
AGNES MARTINThe artist works by awareness of his own state of mind.
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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When I think of art I think of beauty. Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye it is in the mind. In our minds there is awareness of perfection.
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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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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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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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When you look in your mind you find it covered with a lot of rubbishy thoughts.
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Nature is like parting a curtain, you go into it …. as you would cross an empty beach to look at the ocean.
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The adventurous state of mind is a high house… The joy of adventure is unaccountable.
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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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One must see the ideal in one’s own mind. It is like a memory – an awareness -of perfection.
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I paint with my back to the world
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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.
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That which takes us by surprise-moments of happiness-that is inspiration.
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Happiness is being on the beam with life – to feel the pull of life
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I’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They’re just horizontal lines.
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