It’s not about facts, it’s about feelings. It’s about remembering feelings and happiness.
AGNES MARTINThe artist works by awareness of his own state of mind.
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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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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You must find the things that you do like. The things that are acceptable to your mind.
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Happiness is being on the beam with life – to feel the pull of life
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This is the attractiveness of artwork. It is adventurous, strenuous and joyful.
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What we really want to do is serve happiness. We want everyone to be happy, never unhappy even for a moment. We want the animals to be happy.
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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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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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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 artist works by awareness of his own state of mind.
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I want to say that they are not what they seem to be. I want to say that all that seems like fantastic mistakes are not mistake.
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The manipulation of materials in an artwork is a result of this state of mind.
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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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All that seems like error is not error; and it all has to be done. That which seems like a false step is the next step.
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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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