I used to meditate until I learned to stop thinking.
AGNES MARTINFulfill your potential. That’s the way to happiness.
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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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.
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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
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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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The adventurous state of mind is a high house… The joy of adventure is unaccountable.
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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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I’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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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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The worst thing you can think about when you’re working is yourself.
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All that seems like error is not error; and it all has to be done. That which seems like a false step is the next step.
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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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The artist works by awareness of his own state of mind.
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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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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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I would like my work to be recognized as being in the classical tradition (Coptic, Egyptian, Greek, Chinese), as representing the Ideal in the mind. Classical art cannot possibly be eclectic.
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