My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They’re just horizontal lines.
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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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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Give up doing the things that you do not like to do.
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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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Happiness is being on the beam with life – to feel the pull of life
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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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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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I’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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I think everyone sees beauty. Art is a way to respond
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To progress in life you must give up the things you do not like.
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I paint with my back to the world
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The happiness of every living thing is what we want.
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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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Fulfill your potential. That’s the way to happiness.
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Withdraws and makes itself up again pulls itself together with pride towers with pride rushes forward into imaginary conquest crashes in frustration withdraws with remorse and repentance pulls itself together with new resolution
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I think it’s a response in our minds to perfection. It’s too bad, people not realizing that their minds expand beyond this world.
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