I often paint tranquility. If you stop thinking and rest, then a little happiness comes into your mind. At perfect rest you are comfortable.
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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I think everyone sees beauty. Art is a way to respond
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Give up doing the things that you do not like to do.
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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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Fulfill your potential. That’s the way to happiness.
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You have to penetrate these and hear what your mind is telling you to do. Such work is original work.
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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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One must see the ideal in one’s own mind. It is like a memory – an awareness -of perfection.
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It’s through discipline and tremendous disappointment and failure that you arrive at what it is you must paint.
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I paint with my back to the world
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My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They’re just horizontal lines.
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It is commonly thought that everything that is can be put into words.
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I think our minds respond to things beyond this world. Take beauty: it’s a very mysterious thing, isn’t it?
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The adventurous state of mind is a high house… The joy of adventure is unaccountable.
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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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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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