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 MARTINIt is commonly thought that everything that is can be put into words.
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My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They’re just horizontal lines.
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It’s not about facts, it’s about feelings. It’s about remembering feelings and happiness.
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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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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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Fulfill your potential. That’s the way to happiness.
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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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What I say is that we’re capable of a transcendent response, and I think it makes us happy. And I do think beauty produces a transcendent response.
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When I first made a grid I happened to be thinking of the innocence of trees and then this grid came into my mind and I thought it represented innocence, and I still do, and so I painted it and then I was satisfied. I thought, this is my vision.
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Happiness is being on the beam with life – to feel the pull of life
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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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The artist works by awareness of his own state of mind.
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Withdraws and makes itself up again pulls itself together with pride towers with pride rushes forward into imaginary conquest crashes in frustration withdraws with remorse and repentance pulls itself together with new resolution
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To progress in life you must give up the things you do not like.
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The adventurous state of mind is a high house… The joy of adventure is unaccountable.
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