Fulfill your potential. That’s the way to happiness.
AGNES MARTINThe manipulation of materials in an artwork is a result of this state of mind.
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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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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The enormous pitfall is devotion to oneself instead of to life. All works that are self-devoted are absolutely ineffective.
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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 paint with my back to the world
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Anything can be painted without representation.
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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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Doing what you were born to do … That’s the way to be happy.
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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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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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It’s not about facts, it’s about feelings. It’s about remembering feelings and happiness.
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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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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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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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To progress in life you must give up the things you do not like.
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Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.
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