There’s not any hint of nature. And still everybody responds, I think.
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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The happiness of every living thing is what we want.
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The worst thing you can think about when you’re working is yourself.
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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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You must find the things that you do like. The things that are acceptable to your mind.
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What I say is that we’re capable of a transcendent response, and I think it makes us happy. And I do think beauty produces a transcendent response.
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Inspiration is there all the time. For everyone whose mind is not clouded over with thoughts whether they realize it or not.
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When I think of art I think of beauty. Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye it is in the mind. In our minds there is awareness of perfection.
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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.
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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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There’s nobody living who couldn’t stand all afternoon in front of a waterfall …. Anyone who can sit on a stone in a field awhile can see my painting.
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Give up doing the things that you do not like to do.
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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
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The artist works by awareness of his own state of mind.
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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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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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I used to meditate until I learned to stop thinking.
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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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When you look in your mind you find it covered with a lot of rubbishy thoughts.
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I often paint tranquility. If you stop thinking and rest, then a little happiness comes into your mind. At perfect rest you are comfortable.
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Any material may be used but the theme is the same and the response is the same for all artwork.
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It’s not about facts, it’s about feelings. It’s about remembering feelings and happiness.
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That which takes us by surprise-moments of happiness-that is inspiration.
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My paintings are not about what is seen. They are about what is known forever in the mind.
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My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They’re just horizontal lines.
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One must see the ideal in one’s own mind. It is like a memory – an awareness -of perfection.
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Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye, it is in the mind.
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