You can’t make a perfect painting. We can see perfection in our minds. But we can’t make a perfect painting.
AGNES MARTINNature is like parting a curtain, you go into it …. as you would cross an empty beach to look at the ocean.
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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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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Any material may be used but the theme is the same and the response is the same for all artwork.
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That which takes us by surprise-moments of happiness-that is inspiration.
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This is the attractiveness of artwork. It is adventurous, strenuous and joyful.
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My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They’re just horizontal lines.
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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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The happiness of every living thing is what we want.
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I think everyone sees beauty. Art is a way to respond
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It is commonly thought that everything that is can be put into words.
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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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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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They are immeasurable, completely lacking in substance. They are perfect and sublime. This is the subject matter of art.
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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 once taught art to adults in a night course. I had a woman who painted her back yard, and she said it was the first time she had ever really looked at it. I think everyone sees beauty. Art is a way to respond
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I’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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