We all have the same concern, but the artist must know exactly what the experience is. He must pursue the truth relentlessly
AGNES MARTINThe adventurous state of mind is a high house… The joy of adventure is unaccountable.
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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That which takes us by surprise-moments of happiness-that is inspiration.
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I often paint tranquility. If you stop thinking and rest, then a little happiness comes into your mind. At perfect rest you are comfortable.
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I’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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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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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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They are immeasurable, completely lacking in substance. They are perfect and sublime. This is the subject matter of art.
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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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Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.
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This is the attractiveness of artwork. It is adventurous, strenuous and joyful.
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I paint with my back to the world
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It’s through discipline and tremendous disappointment and failure that you arrive at what it is you must paint.
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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 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.
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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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Fulfill your potential. That’s the way to happiness.
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