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.
AGNES MARTINHappiness is being on the beam with life – to feel the pull of life
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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Fulfill your potential. That’s the way to happiness.
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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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Nature is like parting a curtain, you go into it …. as you would cross an empty beach to look at the ocean.
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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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Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye, it is in the mind.
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This is the attractiveness of artwork. It is adventurous, strenuous and joyful.
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My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They’re just horizontal lines.
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It is commonly thought that everything that is can be put into words.
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The happiness of every living thing is what we want.
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The manipulation of materials in an artwork is a result of this state of mind.
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When you look in your mind you find it covered with a lot of rubbishy thoughts.
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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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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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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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