I think everyone sees beauty. Art is a way to respond
AGNES MARTINAny material may be used but the theme is the same and the response is the same for all artwork.
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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Fulfill your potential. That’s the way to happiness.
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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 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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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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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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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 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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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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My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They’re just horizontal lines.
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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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Once he sees this fact his feet are on the path. If you want to know the truth you will know it.
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This is the attractiveness of artwork. It is adventurous, strenuous and joyful.
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The enormous pitfall is devotion to oneself instead of to life. All works that are self-devoted are absolutely ineffective.
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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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It would be an endless battle if it were all up to ego because it does not destroy and is not destroyed by itself It is like a wave it makes itself up,It rushes forward getting nowhere really it crashes
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