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.
AGNES MARTINWhat 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.
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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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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The artist works by awareness of his own state of mind.
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I used to meditate until I learned to stop thinking.
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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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When you look in your mind you find it covered with a lot of rubbishy thoughts.
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Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.
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The worst thing you can think about when you’re working is yourself.
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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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It’s through discipline and tremendous disappointment and failure that you arrive at what it is you must paint.
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I paint with my back to the world
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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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You must find the things that you do like. The things that are acceptable to your mind.
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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 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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My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They’re just horizontal lines.
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