When you look in your mind you find it covered with a lot of rubbishy thoughts.
AGNES MARTINThe artist works by awareness of his own state of mind.
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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I’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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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 manipulation of materials in an artwork is a result of this state of mind.
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To progress in life you must give up the things you do not like.
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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 think our minds respond to things beyond this world. Take beauty: it’s a very mysterious thing, isn’t it?
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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.
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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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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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Happiness is being on the beam with life – to feel the pull of life
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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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It’s not about facts, it’s about feelings. It’s about remembering feelings and happiness.
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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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It’s through discipline and tremendous disappointment and failure that you arrive at what it is you must paint.
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My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They’re just horizontal lines.
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