Any material may be used but the theme is the same and the response is the same for all artwork.
AGNES MARTINI paint with my back to the world
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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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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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 happiness of every living thing is what we want.
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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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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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I used to meditate until I learned to stop thinking.
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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.
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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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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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Fulfill your potential. That’s the way to happiness.
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To progress in life you must give up the things you do not like.
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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 think everyone sees beauty. Art is a way to respond
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I’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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I paint with my back to the world
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