They are immeasurable, completely lacking in substance. They are perfect and sublime. This is the subject matter of art.
AGNES MARTINDoing what you were born to do … That’s the way to be happy.
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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There’s not any hint of nature. And still everybody responds, I think.
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I think everyone sees beauty. Art is a way to respond
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The artist works by awareness of his own state of mind.
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Happiness is being on the beam with life – to feel the pull of life
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The 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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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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Give up doing the things that you do not like to do.
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I paint with my back to the world
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The worst thing you can think about when you’re working is yourself.
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When 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.
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Withdraws and makes itself up again pulls itself together with pride towers with pride rushes forward into imaginary conquest crashes in frustration withdraws with remorse and repentance pulls itself together with new resolution
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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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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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The manipulation of materials in an artwork is a result of this state of 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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