We all have the same concern, but the artist must know exactly what the experience is. He must pursue the truth relentlessly
AGNES MARTINWe all have 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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There’s not any hint of nature. And still everybody responds, I think.
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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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Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye, it is in the mind.
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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.
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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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To progress in life you must give up the things you do not like.
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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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It is commonly thought that everything that is can be put into words.
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I think everyone sees beauty. Art is a way to respond
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I used to meditate until I learned to stop thinking.
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Fulfill your potential. That’s the way to happiness.
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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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This is the attractiveness of artwork. It is adventurous, strenuous and joyful.
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The artist works by awareness of his own state of mind.
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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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