The happiness of every living thing is what we want.
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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The enormous pitfall is devotion to oneself instead of to life. All works that are self-devoted are absolutely ineffective.
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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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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 want to emphasize the fact that we all have the same experience and the same concern, but the artist must know exactly what the experience is. He must pursue the truth relentlessly.
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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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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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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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The worst thing you can think about when you’re working is yourself.
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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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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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When you look in your mind you find it covered with a lot of rubbishy thoughts.
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I want to say that they are not what they seem to be. I want to say that all that seems like fantastic mistakes are not mistake.
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My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They’re just horizontal lines.
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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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