Give up doing the things that you do not like to do.
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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It would be an endless battle if it were all up to ego because it does not destroy and is not destroyed by itself It is like a wave it makes itself up,It rushes forward getting nowhere really it crashes
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This is the attractiveness of artwork. It is adventurous, strenuous and joyful.
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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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My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They’re just horizontal lines.
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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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The artist works by awareness of his own state of mind.
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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 think everyone sees beauty. Art is a way to respond
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There’s not any hint of nature. And still everybody responds, I think.
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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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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.
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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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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’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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The manipulation of materials in an artwork is a result of this state of mind.
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