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
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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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The artist works by awareness of his own state of mind.
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I used to meditate until I learned to stop thinking.
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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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When you look in your mind you find it covered with a lot of rubbishy thoughts.
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My paintings are not about what is seen. They are about what is known forever in the mind.
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Anything can be painted without representation.
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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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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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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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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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You must find the things that you do like. The things that are acceptable to your mind.
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Fulfill your potential. That’s the way to happiness.
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The enormous pitfall is devotion to oneself instead of to life. All works that are self-devoted are absolutely ineffective.
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