You must find the things that you do like. The things that are acceptable to your mind.
AGNES MARTINI used to meditate until I learned to stop thinking.
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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When I first made a grid I happened to be thinking of the innocence of trees and then this grid came into my mind and I thought it represented innocence, and I still do, and so I painted it and then I was satisfied. I thought, this is my vision.
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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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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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Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye, it is in the mind.
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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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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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There’s not any hint of nature. And still everybody responds, I think.
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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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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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I used to meditate until I learned to stop thinking.
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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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Any material may be used but the theme is the same and the response is the same for all artwork.
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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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