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
AGNES MARTINArt is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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I paint with my back to the world
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It’s not about facts, it’s about feelings. It’s about remembering feelings and happiness.
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The artist works by awareness of his own state of mind.
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That which takes us by surprise-moments of happiness-that is inspiration.
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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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Fulfill your potential. That’s the way to happiness.
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Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.
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Nature is like parting a curtain, you go into it …. as you would cross an empty beach to look at the ocean.
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The manipulation of materials in an artwork is a result of this state of mind.
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Doing what you were born to do … That’s the way to be happy.
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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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You can’t make a perfect painting. We can see perfection in our minds. But we can’t make a perfect painting.
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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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I think everyone sees beauty. Art is a way to respond
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I want to say that they are not what they seem to be. I want to say that all that seems like fantastic mistakes are not mistake.
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