I want to emphasize the fact that we all have the same experience and the same concern, but the artist must know exactly what the experience is. He must pursue the truth relentlessly.
AGNES MARTINI paint with my back to the world
More Agnes Martin Quotes
-
-
The artist works by awareness of his own state of mind.
AGNES MARTIN -
Fulfill your potential. That’s the way to happiness.
AGNES MARTIN -
The manipulation of materials in an artwork is a result of this state of mind.
AGNES MARTIN -
I’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
AGNES MARTIN -
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.
AGNES MARTIN -
Give up doing the things that you do not like to do.
AGNES MARTIN -
That which takes us by surprise-moments of happiness-that is inspiration.
AGNES MARTIN -
They are immeasurable, completely lacking in substance. They are perfect and sublime. This is the subject matter of art.
AGNES MARTIN -
When you look in your mind you find it covered with a lot of rubbishy thoughts.
AGNES MARTIN -
My paintings are not about what is seen. They are about what is known forever in the mind.
AGNES MARTIN -
I 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 MARTIN -
The adventurous state of mind is a high house… The joy of adventure is unaccountable.
AGNES MARTIN -
You must find the things that you do like. The things that are acceptable to your mind.
AGNES MARTIN -
I paint with my back to the world
AGNES MARTIN -
The worst thing you can think about when you’re working is yourself.
AGNES MARTIN






