I paint with my back to the world
AGNES MARTINMy paintings are certainly nonobjective. They’re just horizontal lines.
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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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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Fulfill your potential. That’s the way to happiness.
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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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Doing what you were born to do … That’s the way to be happy.
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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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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 think everyone sees beauty. Art is a way to respond
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Pollock was terrific. I think he freed himself of all kinds of worry about this world. Ran around and dripped, and then he managed to express ecstasy.
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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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I want to emphasize the fact that we all have the same experience and the same concern, but the artist must know exactly what the experience is. He must pursue the truth relentlessly.
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There’s not any hint of nature. And still everybody responds, I think.
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This is the attractiveness of artwork. It is adventurous, strenuous and joyful.
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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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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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My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They’re just horizontal lines.
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