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There’s not any hint of nature. And still everybody responds, I think.

Agnes Martin

Any material may be used but the theme is the same and the response is the same for all artwork.
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Artist Artwork Material May Response Theme
I’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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Careful Idea Inaccurate
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
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Adult Art Course Night Once Taught Think Thinking
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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Art Aware Hope Made Mind Ourself Perfect Perfection
Happiness is being on the beam with life – to feel the pull of life
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Beam Feel Happiness Life Pull
It’s not about facts, it’s about feelings. It’s about remembering feelings and happiness.
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Art Fact Feeling Happiness Remembering Thinking
It is commonly thought that everything that is can be put into words.
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Commonly Everything Put Thought Word
I used to meditate until I learned to stop thinking.
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Learned Mediate Think Thinking Used
I think everyone sees beauty. Art is a way to respond
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Art Beauty Everyone Respond See Way
The worst thing you can think about when you’re working is yourself.
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Think Thinking Working Worst Yourself
The adventurous state of mind is a high house… The joy of adventure is unaccountable.
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Adventure High House Joy Mind State
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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Afternoon Beach Front Living Nature Nobody Ocean Stand Waterfall
You have to penetrate these and hear what your mind is telling you to do. Such work is original work.
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Hear Mind Original Penetrate Telling Work
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.
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Artist Concern Emphasize Exactly Experience Feet Mind Pursue Relentlessly Same
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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Beach Cross Curtain Empty Look Nature Ocean Painting
You must find the things that you do like. The things that are acceptable to your mind.
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Acceptable Find Mind Think Thinking

There’s not any hint of nature. And still everybody responds, I think.

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