They are immeasurable, completely lacking in substance. They are perfect and sublime. This is the subject matter of art.
AGNES MARTINI 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.
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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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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It is commonly thought that everything that is can be put into words.
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I think it’s a response in our minds to perfection. It’s too bad, people not realizing that their minds expand beyond this world.
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You have to penetrate these and hear what your mind is telling you to do. Such work is original work.
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The happiness of every living thing is what we want.
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I’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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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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The adventurous state of mind is a high house… The joy of adventure is unaccountable.
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Give up doing the things that you do not like to do.
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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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That which takes us by surprise-moments of happiness-that is inspiration.
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The manipulation of materials in an artwork is a result of this state of mind.
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To progress in life you must give up the things you do not like.
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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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Doing what you were born to do … That’s the way to be happy.
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