Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.
AGNES MARTINThis is the attractiveness of artwork. It is adventurous, strenuous and joyful.
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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Fulfill your potential. That’s the way to happiness.
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I think our minds respond to things beyond this world. Take beauty: it’s a very mysterious thing, isn’t it?
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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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Doing what you were born to do … That’s the way to be happy.
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When you look in your mind you find it covered with a lot of rubbishy thoughts.
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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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The manipulation of materials in an artwork is a result of this state of mind.
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The 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.
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This is the attractiveness of artwork. It is adventurous, strenuous and joyful.
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There’s not any hint of nature. And still everybody responds, I think.
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Once he sees this fact his feet are on the path. If you want to know the truth you will know it.
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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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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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My paintings are not about what is seen. They are about what is known forever in the mind.
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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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