The artist works by awareness of his own state of mind.
AGNES MARTINA 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.
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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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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Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.
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Fulfill your potential. That’s the way to happiness.
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Doing what you were born to do … That’s the way to be happy.
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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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Give up doing the things that you do not like to do.
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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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I think everyone sees beauty. Art is a way to respond
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Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye, it is in the mind.
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Happiness is being on the beam with life – to feel the pull of life
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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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I would like my work to be recognized as being in the classical tradition (Coptic, Egyptian, Greek, Chinese), as representing the Ideal in the mind. Classical art cannot possibly be eclectic.
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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 think it’s a response in our minds to perfection. It’s too bad, people not realizing that their minds expand beyond this world.
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Anything can be painted without representation.
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