I often paint tranquility. If you stop thinking and rest, then a little happiness comes into your mind. At perfect rest you are comfortable.
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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One must see the ideal in one’s own mind. It is like a memory – an awareness -of perfection.
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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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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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They are immeasurable, completely lacking in substance. They are perfect and sublime. This is the subject matter of art.
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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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When you look in your mind you find it covered with a lot of rubbishy thoughts.
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When I first made a grid I happened to be thinking of the innocence of trees and then this grid came into my mind and I thought it represented innocence, and I still do, and so I painted it and then I was satisfied. I thought, this is my vision.
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My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They’re just horizontal lines.
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The worst thing you can think about when you’re working is yourself.
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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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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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Happiness is being on the beam with life – to feel the pull of life
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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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I want to say that they are not what they seem to be. I want to say that all that seems like fantastic mistakes are not mistake.
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I paint with my back to the world
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