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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The happiness of every living thing is what we want.
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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 often paint tranquility. If you stop thinking and rest, then a little happiness comes into your mind. At perfect rest you are comfortable.
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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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I paint with my back to the world
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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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It’s not about facts, it’s about feelings. It’s about remembering feelings and happiness.
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This is the attractiveness of artwork. It is adventurous, strenuous and joyful.
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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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Anything can be painted without representation.
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I’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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To progress in life you must give up the things you do not like.
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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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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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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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