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.
AGNES MARTINI want to say that they are not what they seem to be. I want to say that all that seems like fantastic mistakes are not mistake.
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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One must see the ideal in one’s own mind. It is like a memory – an awareness -of perfection.
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This is the attractiveness of artwork. It is adventurous, strenuous and joyful.
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The happiness of every living thing is what we want.
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There’s not any hint of nature. And still everybody responds, I think.
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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 enormous pitfall is devotion to oneself instead of to life. All works that are self-devoted are absolutely ineffective.
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Doing what you were born to do … That’s the way to be happy.
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That which takes us by surprise-moments of happiness-that is inspiration.
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You can’t make a perfect painting. We can see perfection in our minds. But we can’t make a perfect painting.
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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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It is commonly thought that everything that is can be put into words.
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To progress in life you must give up the things you do not like.
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I 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.
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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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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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