My paintings are not about what is seen. They are about what is known forever in the mind.
AGNES MARTINGive up doing the things that you do not like to do.
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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The artist works by awareness of his own state of mind.
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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 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.
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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’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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The adventurous state of mind is a high house… The joy of adventure is unaccountable.
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I paint with my back to the world
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When you look in your mind you find it covered with a lot of rubbishy thoughts.
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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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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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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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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.
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Nature is like parting a curtain, you go into it …. as you would cross an empty beach to look at the ocean.
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The happiness of every living thing is what we want.
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