You have to penetrate these and hear what your mind is telling you to do. Such work is original work.
AGNES MARTINArt is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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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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Any material may be used but the theme is the same and the response is the same for all artwork.
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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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I think everyone sees beauty. Art is a way to respond
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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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Fulfill your potential. That’s the way to happiness.
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The happiness of every living thing is what we want.
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Inspiration is there all the time. For everyone whose mind is not clouded over with thoughts whether they realize it or not.
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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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Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.
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My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They’re just horizontal lines.
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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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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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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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It would be an endless battle if it were all up to ego because it does not destroy and is not destroyed by itself It is like a wave it makes itself up,It rushes forward getting nowhere really it crashes
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