I think our minds respond to things beyond this world. Take beauty: it’s a very mysterious thing, isn’t it?
AGNES MARTINThe Minimalists are idealist. They want to minimise themselves in favour of the ideal. But I just can’t. You see, my paintings are not cool.
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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Pollock was terrific. I think he freed himself of all kinds of worry about this world. Ran around and dripped, and then he managed to express ecstasy.
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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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It is commonly thought that everything that is can be put into words.
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The manipulation of materials in an artwork is a result of this 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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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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It’s not about facts, it’s about feelings. It’s about remembering feelings and happiness.
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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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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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The adventurous state of mind is a high house… The joy of adventure is unaccountable.
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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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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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One must see the ideal in one’s own mind. It is like a memory – an awareness -of perfection.
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The artist works by awareness of his own state of mind.
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