I paint with my back to the world
AGNES MARTINThat which takes us by surprise-moments of happiness-that is inspiration.
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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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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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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Anything can be painted without representation.
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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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When I first made a grid I happened to be thinking of the innocence of trees and then this grid came into my mind and I thought it represented innocence, and I still do, and so I painted it and then I was satisfied. I thought, this is my vision.
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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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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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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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I used to meditate until I learned to stop thinking.
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I think everyone sees beauty. Art is a way to respond
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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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The happiness of every living thing is what we want.
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You have to penetrate these and hear what your mind is telling you to do. Such work is original work.
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The manipulation of materials in an artwork is a result of this state of mind.
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That which takes us by surprise-moments of happiness-that is inspiration.
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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 not any hint of nature. And still everybody responds, I think.
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Give up doing the things that you do not like to do.
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It is commonly thought that everything that is can be put into words.
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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 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 adventurous state of mind is a high house… The joy of adventure is unaccountable.
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What we really want to do is serve happiness. We want everyone to be happy, never unhappy even for a moment. We want the animals to be happy.
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It’s not about facts, it’s about feelings. It’s about remembering feelings and happiness.
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What I say is that we’re capable of a transcendent response, and I think it makes us happy. And I do think beauty produces a transcendent response.
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Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.
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