I’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
AGNES MARTINMy paintings are certainly nonobjective. They’re just horizontal lines.
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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It’s not about facts, it’s about feelings. It’s about remembering feelings and happiness.
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The adventurous state of mind is a high house… The joy of adventure is unaccountable.
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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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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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It is commonly thought that everything that is can be put into words.
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Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.
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The artist works by awareness of his own state of mind.
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It’s through discipline and tremendous disappointment and failure that you arrive at what it is you must paint.
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The happiness of every living thing is what we want.
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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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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 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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I paint with my back to the world
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Give up doing the things that you do not like to do.
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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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