Beauty and happiness and life are all the same and they are pervasive, unattached and abstract and they are our only concern.
AGNES MARTINI paint with my back to the world
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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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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My paintings are not about what is seen. They are about what is known forever in the mind.
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I think everyone sees beauty. Art is a way to respond
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My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They’re just horizontal lines.
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When you look in your mind you find it covered with a lot of rubbishy thoughts.
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The adventurous state of mind is a high house… The joy of adventure is unaccountable.
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I used to meditate until I learned to stop thinking.
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Withdraws 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
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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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It’s not about facts, it’s about feelings. It’s about remembering feelings and happiness.
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I’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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There’s not any hint of nature. And still everybody responds, I think.
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There’s nobody living who couldn’t stand all afternoon in front of a waterfall …. Anyone who can sit on a stone in a field awhile can see my painting.
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You can’t make a perfect painting. We can see perfection in our minds. But we can’t make a perfect painting.
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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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