The adventurous state of mind is a high house… The joy of adventure is unaccountable.
AGNES MARTINI used to meditate until I learned to stop thinking.
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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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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Fulfill your potential. That’s the way to happiness.
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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 think our minds respond to things beyond this world. Take beauty: it’s a very mysterious thing, isn’t it?
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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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Doing what you were born to do … That’s the way to be happy.
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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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One must see the ideal in one’s own mind. It is like a memory – an awareness -of perfection.
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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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When you look in your mind you find it covered with a lot of rubbishy thoughts.
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I’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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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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The artist works by awareness of his own state of mind.
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The worst thing you can think about when you’re working is yourself.
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