Inspiration is there all the time. For everyone whose mind is not clouded over with thoughts whether they realize it or not.
AGNES MARTINBeauty and happiness and life are all the same and they are pervasive, unattached and abstract and they are our only concern.
More Agnes Martin Quotes
-
-
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.
AGNES MARTIN -
Doing what you were born to do … That’s the way to be happy.
AGNES MARTIN -
This is the attractiveness of artwork. It is adventurous, strenuous and joyful.
AGNES MARTIN -
There’s not any hint of nature. And still everybody responds, I think.
AGNES MARTIN -
Nature is like parting a curtain, you go into it …. as you would cross an empty beach to look at the ocean.
AGNES MARTIN -
Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye, it is in the mind.
AGNES MARTIN -
Beauty and happiness and life are all the same and they are pervasive, unattached and abstract and they are our only concern.
AGNES MARTIN -
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
AGNES MARTIN -
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
AGNES MARTIN -
When you look in your mind you find it covered with a lot of rubbishy thoughts.
AGNES MARTIN -
Any material may be used but the theme is the same and the response is the same for all artwork.
AGNES MARTIN -
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.
AGNES MARTIN -
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.
AGNES MARTIN -
Fulfill your potential. That’s the way to happiness.
AGNES MARTIN -
To progress in life you must give up the things you do not like.
AGNES MARTIN