It is commonly thought that everything that is can be put into words.
AGNES MARTINArt is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.
More Agnes Martin Quotes
-
-
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.
AGNES MARTIN -
You have to penetrate these and hear what your mind is telling you to do. Such work is original work.
AGNES MARTIN -
The enormous pitfall is devotion to oneself instead of to life. All works that are self-devoted are absolutely ineffective.
AGNES MARTIN -
The artist works by awareness of his own state of mind.
AGNES MARTIN -
Beauty and happiness and life are all the same and they are pervasive, unattached and abstract and they are our only concern.
AGNES MARTIN -
You can’t make a perfect painting. We can see perfection in our minds. But we can’t make a perfect painting.
AGNES MARTIN -
The manipulation of materials in an artwork is a result of this state of mind.
AGNES MARTIN -
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.
AGNES MARTIN -
Give up doing the things that you do not like to do.
AGNES MARTIN -
To progress in life you must give up the things you do not like.
AGNES MARTIN -
The happiness of every living thing is what we want.
AGNES MARTIN -
We all have the same concern, but the artist must know exactly what the experience is. He must pursue the truth relentlessly
AGNES MARTIN -
Anything can be painted without representation.
AGNES MARTIN -
Happiness is being on the beam with life – to feel the pull of life
AGNES MARTIN -
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.
AGNES MARTIN