They are immeasurable, completely lacking in substance. They are perfect and sublime. This is the subject matter of art.
AGNES MARTINIt is commonly thought that everything that is can be put into words.
More Agnes Martin Quotes
-
-
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.
AGNES MARTIN -
Give up doing the things that you do not like to do.
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 -
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.
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 Minimalists are idealist. They want to minimise themselves in favour of the ideal. But I just can’t. You see, my paintings are not cool.
AGNES MARTIN -
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
AGNES MARTIN -
This is the attractiveness of artwork. It is adventurous, strenuous and joyful.
AGNES MARTIN -
There’s nobody living who couldn’t stand all afternoon in front of a waterfall …. Anyone who can sit on a stone in a field awhile can see my painting.
AGNES MARTIN -
Fulfill your potential. That’s the way to happiness.
AGNES MARTIN -
There’s not any hint of nature. And still everybody responds, I think.
AGNES MARTIN -
You have to penetrate these and hear what your mind is telling you to do. Such work is original work.
AGNES MARTIN -
That which takes us by surprise-moments of happiness-that is inspiration.
AGNES MARTIN -
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.
AGNES MARTIN -
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.
AGNES MARTIN