I think our minds respond to things beyond this world. Take beauty: it’s a very mysterious thing, isn’t it?
AGNES MARTINI’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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The worst thing you can think about when you’re working is yourself.
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This is the attractiveness of artwork. It is adventurous, strenuous and joyful.
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That which takes us by surprise-moments of happiness-that is inspiration.
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Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.
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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 must find the things that you do like. The things that are acceptable to your mind.
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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
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Pollock was terrific. I think he freed himself of all kinds of worry about this world. Ran around and dripped, and then he managed to express ecstasy.
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They are immeasurable, completely lacking in substance. They are perfect and sublime. This is the subject matter of art.
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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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Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye, it is in the mind.
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It is commonly thought that everything that is can be put into words.
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It’s not about facts, it’s about feelings. It’s about remembering feelings and happiness.
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I’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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I paint with my back to the world
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