I paint with my back to the world
AGNES MARTINI hope I have made it clear that the work is about perfection as we are aware of it in our minds but that the paintings are very far from being perfect – completely removed in fact – even as we ourselves are.
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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Beauty and happiness and life are all the same and they are pervasive, unattached and abstract and they are our only concern.
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I want to emphasize the fact that we all have the same experience and the same concern, but the artist must know exactly what the experience is. He must pursue the truth relentlessly.
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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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They are immeasurable, completely lacking in substance. They are perfect and sublime. This is the subject matter of art.
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Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.
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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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My paintings are not about what is seen. They are about what is known forever in the mind.
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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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There’s not any hint of nature. And still everybody responds, I think.
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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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Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye, it is in the mind.
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My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They’re just horizontal lines.
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Doing what you were born to do … That’s the way to be happy.
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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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Anything can be painted without representation.
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