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.
AGNES MARTINI paint with my back to the world
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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When I think of art I think of beauty. Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye it is in the mind. In our minds there is awareness of perfection.
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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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The artist works by awareness of his own state of mind.
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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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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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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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Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.
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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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When you look in your mind you find it covered with a lot of rubbishy thoughts.
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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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Nature is like parting a curtain, you go into it …. as you would cross an empty beach to look at the ocean.
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The adventurous state of mind is a high house… The joy of adventure is unaccountable.
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It would be an endless battle if it were all up to ego because it does not destroy and is not destroyed by itself It is like a wave it makes itself up,It rushes forward getting nowhere really it crashes
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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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