Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye, it is in the mind.
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.
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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What we really want to do is serve happiness. We want everyone to be happy, never unhappy even for a moment. We want the animals to be happy.
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It’s through discipline and tremendous disappointment and failure that you arrive at what it is you must paint.
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I’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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I think everyone sees beauty. Art is a way to respond
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This is the attractiveness of artwork. It is adventurous, strenuous and joyful.
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It is commonly thought that everything that is can be put into words.
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There’s not any hint of nature. And still everybody responds, I think.
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The manipulation of materials in an artwork is a result of this state of mind.
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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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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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Happiness is being on the beam with life – to feel the pull of life
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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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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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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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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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