Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye, it is in the mind.
AGNES MARTINAnything can be painted without representation.
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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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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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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It is commonly thought that everything that is can be put into words.
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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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There’s not any hint of nature. And still everybody responds, I think.
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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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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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They are immeasurable, completely lacking in substance. They are perfect and sublime. This is the subject matter of art.
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That which takes us by surprise-moments of happiness-that is inspiration.
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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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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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Inspiration is there all the time. For everyone whose mind is not clouded over with thoughts whether they realize it or not.
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I paint with my back to the world
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It would be an endless battle if it were all up to ego because it does not destroy and is not destroyed by itself It is like a wave it makes itself up,It rushes forward getting nowhere really it crashes
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What I say is that we’re capable of a transcendent response, and I think it makes us happy. And I do think beauty produces a transcendent response.
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