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’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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I’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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Once he sees this fact his feet are on the path. If you want to know the truth you will know it.
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It is commonly thought that everything that is can be put into words.
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Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.
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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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My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They’re just horizontal lines.
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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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The adventurous state of mind is a high house… The joy of adventure is unaccountable.
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Anything can be painted without representation.
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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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All that seems like error is not error; and it all has to be done. That which seems like a false step is the next step.
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Give up doing the things that you do not like to do.
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There’s not any hint of nature. And still everybody responds, I think.
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I used to meditate until I learned to stop thinking.
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I think everyone sees beauty. Art is a way to respond
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