You can’t make a perfect painting. We can see perfection in our minds. But we can’t make a perfect painting.
AGNES MARTINAnything can be painted without representation.
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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We all have the same concern, but the artist must know exactly what the experience is. He must pursue the truth relentlessly
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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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The worst thing you can think about when you’re working is yourself.
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Fulfill your potential. That’s the way to happiness.
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My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They’re just horizontal lines.
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I paint with my back to the world
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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.
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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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I’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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This is the attractiveness of artwork. It is adventurous, strenuous and joyful.
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The artist works by awareness of his own state of mind.
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When you look in your mind you find it covered with a lot of rubbishy thoughts.
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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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The manipulation of materials in an artwork is a result of this state of mind.
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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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