This is the attractiveness of artwork. It is adventurous, strenuous and joyful.
AGNES MARTINI used to meditate until I learned to stop thinking.
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.
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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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It’s not about facts, it’s about feelings. It’s about remembering feelings and happiness.
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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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The adventurous state of mind is a high house… The joy of adventure is unaccountable.
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You can’t make a perfect painting. We can see perfection in our minds. But we can’t make a perfect painting.
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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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You have to penetrate these and hear what your mind is telling you to do. Such work is original work.
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Give up doing the things that you do not like to do.
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When you look in your mind you find it covered with a lot of rubbishy thoughts.
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The worst thing you can think about when you’re working is yourself.
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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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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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What we really want to do is serve happiness. We want everyone to be happy, never unhappy even for a moment. We want the animals to be happy.
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You must find the things that you do like. The things that are acceptable to your mind.
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