My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They’re just horizontal lines.
AGNES MARTINWhen you look in your mind you find it covered with a lot of rubbishy thoughts.
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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Anything can be painted without representation.
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What we really want to do is serve happiness. We want everyone to be happy, never unhappy even for a moment. We want the animals to be happy.
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I’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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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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We all have the same concern, but the artist must know exactly what the experience is. He must pursue the truth relentlessly
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To progress in life you must give up the things you do not like.
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It is commonly thought that everything that is can be put into words.
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I paint with my back to the world
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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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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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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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That which takes us by surprise-moments of happiness-that is inspiration.
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It’s not about facts, it’s about feelings. It’s about remembering feelings and happiness.
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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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