Once he sees this fact his feet are on the path. If you want to know the truth you will know it.
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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Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye, it is in the mind.
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Inspiration is there all the time. For everyone whose mind is not clouded over with thoughts whether they realize it or not.
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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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The happiness of every living thing is what we want.
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Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.
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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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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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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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I paint with my back to the world
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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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The artist works by awareness of his own state of mind.
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I’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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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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It’s through discipline and tremendous disappointment and failure that you arrive at what it is you must paint.
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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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