Nature is like parting a curtain, you go into it …. as you would cross an empty beach to look at the ocean.
AGNES MARTINArt is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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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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My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They’re just horizontal lines.
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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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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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The artist works by awareness of his own state of mind.
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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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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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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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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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The happiness of every living thing is what we want.
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I want to emphasize the fact that we all have the same experience and the same concern, but the artist must know exactly what the experience is. He must pursue the truth relentlessly.
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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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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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Happiness is being on the beam with life – to feel the pull of life
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Anything can be painted without representation.
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