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.
AGNES MARTINI think it’s a response in our minds to perfection. It’s too bad, people not realizing that their minds expand beyond this world.
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.
AGNES MARTINThe artist works by awareness of his own state of mind.
AGNES MARTINArt is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.
AGNES MARTINThat which takes us by surprise-moments of happiness-that is inspiration.
AGNES MARTINThey are immeasurable, completely lacking in substance. They are perfect and sublime. This is the subject matter of art.
AGNES MARTINIt is commonly thought that everything that is can be put into words.
AGNES MARTINBeauty and happiness and life are all the same and they are pervasive, unattached and abstract and they are our only concern.
AGNES MARTINHappiness is being on the beam with life – to feel the pull of life
AGNES MARTINThe adventurous state of mind is a high house… The joy of adventure is unaccountable.
AGNES MARTINI’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
AGNES MARTINBeauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye, it is in the mind.
AGNES MARTINThe happiness of every living thing is what we want.
AGNES MARTINI used to meditate until I learned to stop thinking.
AGNES MARTINThe worst thing you can think about when you’re working is yourself.
AGNES MARTINMy paintings are certainly nonobjective. They’re just horizontal lines.
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