Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.
AGNES MARTINInspiration is there all the time. For everyone whose mind is not clouded over with thoughts whether they realize it or not.
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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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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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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It is commonly thought that everything that is can be put into words.
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I’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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Anything can be painted without representation.
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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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This is the attractiveness of artwork. It is adventurous, strenuous and joyful.
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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 used to meditate until I learned to stop thinking.
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When you look in your mind you find it covered with a lot of rubbishy thoughts.
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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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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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Doing what you were born to do … That’s the way to be happy.
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What I say is that we’re capable of a transcendent response, and I think it makes us happy. And I do think beauty produces a transcendent response.
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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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