I’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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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Withdraws and makes itself up again pulls itself together with pride towers with pride rushes forward into imaginary conquest crashes in frustration withdraws with remorse and repentance pulls itself together with new resolution
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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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They are immeasurable, completely lacking in substance. They are perfect and sublime. This is the subject matter of art.
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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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Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye, it is in the mind.
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What we really want to do is serve happiness. We want everyone to be happy, never unhappy even for a moment. We want the animals to be happy.
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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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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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There’s nobody living who couldn’t stand all afternoon in front of a waterfall …. Anyone who can sit on a stone in a field awhile can see my painting.
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When you look in your mind you find it covered with a lot of rubbishy thoughts.
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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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Any material may be used but the theme is the same and the response is the same for all artwork.
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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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This is the attractiveness of artwork. It is adventurous, strenuous and joyful.
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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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