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.
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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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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It’s through discipline and tremendous disappointment and failure that you arrive at what it is you must paint.
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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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This is the attractiveness of artwork. It is adventurous, strenuous and joyful.
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Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.
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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 think our minds respond to things beyond this world. Take beauty: it’s a very mysterious thing, isn’t it?
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We all have the same concern, but the artist must know exactly what the experience is. He must pursue the truth relentlessly
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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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That which takes us by surprise-moments of happiness-that is inspiration.
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I once taught art to adults in a night course. I had a woman who painted her back yard, and she said it was the first time she had ever really looked at it. I think everyone sees beauty. Art is a way to respond
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I used to meditate until I learned to stop thinking.
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Happiness is being on the beam with life – to feel the pull of life
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I would like my work to be recognized as being in the classical tradition (Coptic, Egyptian, Greek, Chinese), as representing the Ideal in the mind. Classical art cannot possibly be eclectic.
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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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