I think everyone sees beauty. Art is a way to respond
AGNES MARTINAnything can be painted without representation.
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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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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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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When you look in your mind you find it covered with a lot of rubbishy thoughts.
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All that seems like error is not error; and it all has to be done. That which seems like a false step is the next step.
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I think our minds respond to things beyond this world. Take beauty: it’s a very mysterious thing, isn’t it?
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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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They are immeasurable, completely lacking in substance. They are perfect and sublime. This is the subject matter of art.
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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 enormous pitfall is devotion to oneself instead of to life. All works that are self-devoted are absolutely ineffective.
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This is the attractiveness of artwork. It is adventurous, strenuous and joyful.
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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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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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Happiness is being on the beam with life – to feel the pull of life
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Give up doing the things that you do not like to do.
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Fulfill your potential. That’s the way to happiness.
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