I paint with my back to the world
AGNES MARTINOnce he sees this fact his feet are on the path. If you want to know the truth you will know it.
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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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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Anything can be painted without representation.
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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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It’s not about facts, it’s about feelings. It’s about remembering feelings and happiness.
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The Minimalists are idealist. They want to minimise themselves in favour of the ideal. But I just can’t. You see, my paintings are not cool.
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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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That which takes us by surprise-moments of happiness-that is inspiration.
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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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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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Any material may be used but the theme is the same and the response is the same for all artwork.
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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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They are immeasurable, completely lacking in substance. They are perfect and sublime. This is the subject matter of art.
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My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They’re just horizontal lines.
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