I think our minds respond to things beyond this world. Take beauty: it’s a very mysterious thing, isn’t it?
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 happiness of every living thing is what we want.
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You must find the things that you do like. The things that are acceptable to your mind.
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It’s not about facts, it’s about feelings. It’s about remembering feelings and happiness.
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Give up doing the things that you do not like to do.
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I used to meditate until I learned to stop thinking.
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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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This is the attractiveness of artwork. It is adventurous, strenuous and joyful.
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A 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.
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I’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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One must see the ideal in one’s own mind. It is like a memory – an awareness -of perfection.
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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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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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My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They’re just horizontal lines.
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The worst thing you can think about when you’re working is yourself.
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There’s not any hint of nature. And still everybody responds, I think.
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