There’s not any hint of nature. And still everybody responds, I think.
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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Doing what you were born to do … That’s the way to be happy.
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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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You must find the things that you do like. The things that are acceptable to your mind.
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We all have the same concern, but the artist must know exactly what the experience is. He must pursue the truth relentlessly
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I paint with my back to the world
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To progress in life you must give up the things you do not like.
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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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When you look in your mind you find it covered with a lot of rubbishy thoughts.
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Once he sees this fact his feet are on the path. If you want to know the truth you will know it.
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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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My paintings are not about what is seen. They are about what is known forever in the 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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I’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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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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Any material may be used but the theme is the same and the response is the same for all artwork.
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