I think everyone sees beauty. Art is a way to respond
AGNES MARTINI think everyone sees beauty. Art is a way to respond
AGNES MARTINI think it’s a response in our minds to perfection. It’s too bad, people not realizing that their minds expand beyond this world.
AGNES MARTINA 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.
AGNES MARTINWhat 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.
AGNES MARTINI 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
AGNES MARTINFulfill your potential. That’s the way to happiness.
AGNES MARTINThis is the attractiveness of artwork. It is adventurous, strenuous and joyful.
AGNES MARTINThere’s not any hint of nature. And still everybody responds, I think.
AGNES MARTINWithdraws 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
AGNES MARTINWhen 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.
AGNES MARTINI’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
AGNES MARTINThat which takes us by surprise-moments of happiness-that is inspiration.
AGNES MARTINOne must see the ideal in one’s own mind. It is like a memory – an awareness -of perfection.
AGNES MARTINWhat 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.
AGNES MARTINI often paint tranquility. If you stop thinking and rest, then a little happiness comes into your mind. At perfect rest you are comfortable.
AGNES MARTINAnything can be painted without representation.
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