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You have to penetrate these and hear what your mind is telling you to do. Such work is original work.

Agnes Martin

Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.
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Art Emotion Feeling Representation Subtle
When I first made a grid I happened to be thinking of the innocence of trees and then this grid came into my mind and I thought it represented innocence, and I still do, and so I painted it and then I was satisfied. I thought, this is my vision.
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First Grid Happenedm Innocense Made Mind Satisfy Think Thinking Tree
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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Abstract Art Beauty Happiness Perfect Pervasive Sublime Unattached
The manipulation of materials in an artwork is a result of this state of mind.
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Artwork Manipulation Material Mind Result State
I once taught art to adults in a night course. I had a woman who painted her back yard, and she said it was the first time she had ever really looked at it. I think everyone sees beauty. Art is a way to respond
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Adult Art Course Night Once Taught Think Thinking
To progress in life you must give up the things you do not like.
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Giving Life Like Mind Progress Thing Up
It’s through discipline and tremendous disappointment and failure that you arrive at what it is you must paint.
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Arrive Disappointment Discipline Failure Must Paint Through
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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Beauty Beyond Mind Mysterious Respond Thing Thinking World
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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Beach Cross Curtain Empty Look Nature Ocean Painting
I paint with my back to the world
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Back Paint World
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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Art Aware Hope Made Mind Ourself Perfect Perfection
You can’t make a perfect painting. We can see perfection in our minds. But we can’t make a perfect painting.
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Art Mind Painting Perfect Perfection
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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Done Error False Next Seem Step
I think everyone sees beauty. Art is a way to respond
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Art Beauty Everyone Respond See Way
The adventurous state of mind is a high house… The joy of adventure is unaccountable.
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Adventure High House Joy Mind State
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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Artist Concern Emphasize Exactly Experience Feet Mind Pursue Relentlessly Same

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