Beauty and happiness and life are all the same and they are pervasive, unattached and abstract and they are our only concern.
AGNES MARTINBeauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye, it is in the mind.
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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I’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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There’s not any hint of nature. And still everybody responds, I think.
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I paint with my back to the world
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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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This is the attractiveness of artwork. It is adventurous, strenuous and joyful.
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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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They are immeasurable, completely lacking in substance. They are perfect and sublime. This is the subject matter of art.
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I think everyone sees beauty. Art is a way to respond
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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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One must see the ideal in one’s own mind. It is like a memory – an awareness -of perfection.
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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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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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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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I want to say that they are not what they seem to be. I want to say that all that seems like fantastic mistakes are not mistake.
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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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