Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye, it is in the mind.
AGNES MARTINI think it’s a response in our minds to perfection. It’s too bad, people not realizing that their minds expand beyond this world.
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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I want to say that they are not what they seem to be. I want to say that all that seems like fantastic mistakes are not mistake.
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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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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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They are immeasurable, completely lacking in substance. They are perfect and sublime. This is the subject matter of art.
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It is commonly thought that everything that is can be put into words.
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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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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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I hope I have made it clear that the work is about perfection as we are aware of it in our minds but that the paintings are very far from being perfect – completely removed in fact – even as we ourselves are.
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It’s through discipline and tremendous disappointment and failure that you arrive at what it is you must paint.
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Give up doing the things that you do not like to do.
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It’s not about facts, it’s about feelings. It’s about remembering feelings and happiness.
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My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They’re just horizontal lines.
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I used to meditate until I learned to stop thinking.
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The manipulation of materials in an artwork is a result of this state of mind.
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