This is the attractiveness of artwork. It is adventurous, strenuous and joyful.
AGNES MARTINThe artist works by awareness of his own state of mind.
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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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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That which takes us by surprise-moments of happiness-that is inspiration.
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Once he sees this fact his feet are on the path. If you want to know the truth you will know it.
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Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.
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Doing what you were born to do … That’s the way to be happy.
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It is commonly thought that everything that is can be put into words.
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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 paint with my back to the world
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The adventurous state of mind is a high house… The joy of adventure is unaccountable.
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There’s nobody living who couldn’t stand all afternoon in front of a waterfall …. Anyone who can sit on a stone in a field awhile can see my painting.
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Anything can be painted without representation.
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What I say is that we’re capable of a transcendent response, and I think it makes us happy. And I do think beauty produces a transcendent response.
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To progress in life you must give up the things you do not like.
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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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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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