Nature is like parting a curtain, you go into it …. as you would cross an empty beach to look at the ocean.
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
-
-
To progress in life you must give up the things you do not like.
AGNES MARTIN -
A definition of art is that it makes concrete our most subtle emotions. I think the highest form of art is music. It’s the most abstract of all art expression.
AGNES MARTIN -
Once he sees this fact his feet are on the path. If you want to know the truth you will know it.
AGNES MARTIN -
I’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
AGNES MARTIN -
The adventurous state of mind is a high house… The joy of adventure is unaccountable.
AGNES MARTIN -
You have to penetrate these and hear what your mind is telling you to do. Such work is original work.
AGNES MARTIN -
I paint with my back to the world
AGNES MARTIN -
There’s not any hint of nature. And still everybody responds, I think.
AGNES MARTIN -
My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They’re just horizontal lines.
AGNES MARTIN -
Anything can be painted without representation.
AGNES MARTIN -
I think our minds respond to things beyond this world. Take beauty: it’s a very mysterious thing, isn’t it?
AGNES MARTIN -
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
AGNES MARTIN -
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.
AGNES MARTIN -
That which takes us by surprise-moments of happiness-that is inspiration.
AGNES MARTIN -
One must see the ideal in one’s own mind. It is like a memory – an awareness -of perfection.
AGNES MARTIN