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 MARTINThis is the attractiveness of artwork. It is adventurous, strenuous and joyful.
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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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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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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The adventurous state of mind is a high house… The joy of adventure is unaccountable.
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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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I’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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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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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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Any material may be used but the theme is the same and the response is the same for all artwork.
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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’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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The manipulation of materials in an artwork is a result of this state of mind.
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The artist works by awareness of his own state of mind.
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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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To progress in life you must give up the things you do not like.
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