The adventurous state of mind is a high house… The joy of adventure is unaccountable.
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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I used to meditate until I learned to stop thinking.
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It’s not about facts, it’s about feelings. It’s about remembering feelings and happiness.
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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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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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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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Nature is like parting a curtain, you go into it …. as you would cross an empty beach to look at the ocean.
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Fulfill your potential. That’s the way to happiness.
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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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The enormous pitfall is devotion to oneself instead of to life. All works that are self-devoted are absolutely ineffective.
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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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They are immeasurable, completely lacking in substance. They are perfect and sublime. This is the subject matter of art.
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I paint with my back to the world
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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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Anything can be painted without representation.
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It is commonly thought that everything that is can be put into words.
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To progress in life you must give up the things you do not like.
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I’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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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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Give up doing the things that you do not like to do.
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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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When I think of art I think of beauty. Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye it is in the mind. In our minds there is awareness of perfection.
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My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They’re just horizontal lines.
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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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The manipulation of materials in an artwork is a result of this state of mind.
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You have to penetrate these and hear what your mind is telling you to do. Such work is original work.
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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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