Beauty and happiness and life are all the same and they are pervasive, unattached and abstract and they are our only concern.
AGNES MARTINBeauty and happiness and life are all the same and they are pervasive, unattached and abstract and they are our only concern.
AGNES MARTINOne must see the ideal in one’s own mind. It is like a memory – an awareness -of perfection.
AGNES MARTINAll 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.
AGNES MARTINThe enormous pitfall is devotion to oneself instead of to life. All works that are self-devoted are absolutely ineffective.
AGNES MARTINBeauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye, it is in the mind.
AGNES MARTINI 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
AGNES MARTINThat which takes us by surprise-moments of happiness-that is inspiration.
AGNES MARTINFulfill your potential. That’s the way to happiness.
AGNES MARTINIt’s not about facts, it’s about feelings. It’s about remembering feelings and happiness.
AGNES MARTINI think our minds respond to things beyond this world. Take beauty: it’s a very mysterious thing, isn’t it?
AGNES MARTINYou must find the things that you do like. The things that are acceptable to your mind.
AGNES MARTINYou can’t make a perfect painting. We can see perfection in our minds. But we can’t make a perfect painting.
AGNES MARTINI used to meditate until I learned to stop thinking.
AGNES MARTINThe 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.
AGNES MARTINYou have to penetrate these and hear what your mind is telling you to do. Such work is original work.
AGNES MARTINMy paintings are certainly nonobjective. They’re just horizontal lines.
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