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.
AGNES MARTINThere’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.
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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I hope I have made it clear that the work is about perfection as we are aware of it in our minds but that the paintings are very far from being perfect – completely removed in fact – even as we ourselves are.
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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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Any material may be used but the theme is the same and the response is the same for all artwork.
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Give up doing the things that you do not like to do.
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All that seems like error is not error; and it all has to be done. That which seems like a false step is the next step.
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You have to penetrate these and hear what your mind is telling you to do. Such work is original work.
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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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Fulfill your potential. That’s the way to happiness.
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Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.
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My paintings are not about what is seen. They are about what is known forever in the mind.
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The Minimalists are idealist. They want to minimise themselves in favour of the ideal. But I just can’t. You see, my paintings are not cool.
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It’s through discipline and tremendous disappointment and failure that you arrive at what it is you must paint.
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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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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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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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