My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They’re just horizontal lines.
AGNES MARTINPollock was terrific. I think he freed himself of all kinds of worry about this world. Ran around and dripped, and then he managed to express ecstasy.
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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A definition of art is that it makes concrete our most subtle emotions. I think the highest form of art is music. It’s the most abstract of all art expression.
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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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It’s through discipline and tremendous disappointment and failure that you arrive at what it is you must paint.
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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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That which takes us by surprise-moments of happiness-that is inspiration.
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You must find the things that you do like. The things that are acceptable to your mind.
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I think everyone sees beauty. Art is a way to respond
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I paint with my back to the world
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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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Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye, it is in the mind.
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Anything can be painted without representation.
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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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Pollock was terrific. I think he freed himself of all kinds of worry about this world. Ran around and dripped, and then he managed to express ecstasy.
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Give up doing the things that you do not like to do.
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Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.
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