There’s not any hint of nature. And still everybody responds, I think.
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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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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Happiness is being on the beam with life – to feel the pull of life
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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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The happiness of every living thing is what we want.
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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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They are immeasurable, completely lacking in substance. They are perfect and sublime. This is the subject matter of art.
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The adventurous state of mind is a high house… The joy of adventure is unaccountable.
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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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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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Anything can be painted without representation.
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Give up doing the things that you do not like to do.
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The worst thing you can think about when you’re working is yourself.
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That which takes us by surprise-moments of happiness-that is inspiration.
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When you look in your mind you find it covered with a lot of rubbishy thoughts.
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