Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.
AGNES MARTINYou have to penetrate these and hear what your mind is telling you to do. Such work is original work.
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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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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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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I think everyone sees beauty. Art is a way to respond
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We all have the same concern, but the artist must know exactly what the experience is. He must pursue the truth relentlessly
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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’s through discipline and tremendous disappointment and failure that you arrive at what it is you must paint.
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Anything can be painted without representation.
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I’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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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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Nature is like parting a curtain, you go into it …. as you would cross an empty beach to look at the ocean.
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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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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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My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They’re just horizontal lines.
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Give up doing the things that you do not like to do.
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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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