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.
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 think everyone sees beauty. Art is a way to respond
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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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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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Anything can be painted without representation.
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The happiness of every living thing is what we want.
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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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Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.
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Withdraws and makes itself up again pulls itself together with pride towers with pride rushes forward into imaginary conquest crashes in frustration withdraws with remorse and repentance pulls itself together with new resolution
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I’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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Beauty and happiness and life are all the same and they are pervasive, unattached and abstract and they are our only concern.
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I used to meditate until I learned to stop thinking.
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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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It’s not about facts, it’s about feelings. It’s about remembering feelings and happiness.
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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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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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