The artist works by awareness of his own state of mind.
AGNES MARTINThis is the attractiveness of artwork. It is adventurous, strenuous and joyful.
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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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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I’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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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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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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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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I think everyone sees beauty. Art is a way to respond
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Fulfill your potential. That’s the way to happiness.
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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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That which takes us by surprise-moments of happiness-that is inspiration.
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This is the attractiveness of artwork. It is adventurous, strenuous and joyful.
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You can’t make a perfect painting. We can see perfection in our minds. But we can’t make a perfect painting.
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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 would like my work to be recognized as being in the classical tradition (Coptic, Egyptian, Greek, Chinese), as representing the Ideal in the mind. Classical art cannot possibly be eclectic.
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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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