Anything can be painted without representation.
AGNES MARTINThe enormous pitfall is devotion to oneself instead of to life. All works that are self-devoted are absolutely ineffective.
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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I think everyone sees beauty. Art is a way to respond
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Doing what you were born to do … That’s the way to be happy.
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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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My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They’re just horizontal lines.
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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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It’s not about facts, it’s about feelings. It’s about remembering feelings and happiness.
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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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Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye, it is in the mind.
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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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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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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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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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Fulfill your potential. That’s the way to happiness.
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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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