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 MARTINIt 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 MARTINThere’s not any hint of nature. And still everybody responds, I think.
AGNES MARTINInspiration is there all the time. For everyone whose mind is not clouded over with thoughts whether they realize it or not.
AGNES MARTINFulfill your potential. That’s the way to happiness.
AGNES MARTINWhen 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.
AGNES MARTINI’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
AGNES MARTINI used to meditate until I learned to stop thinking.
AGNES MARTINArt is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.
AGNES MARTINMy paintings are not about what is seen. They are about what is known forever in the mind.
AGNES MARTINThey are immeasurable, completely lacking in substance. They are perfect and sublime. This is the subject matter of art.
AGNES MARTINNature is like parting a curtain, you go into it …. as you would cross an empty beach to look at the ocean.
AGNES MARTINBeauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye, it is in the mind.
AGNES MARTINIt’s through discipline and tremendous disappointment and failure that you arrive at what it is you must paint.
AGNES MARTINI 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.
AGNES MARTINI’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
AGNES MARTINThe 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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