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.
AGNES MARTINMy paintings are not about what is seen. They are about what is known forever in the mind.
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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Give up doing the things that you do not like to do.
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When you look in your mind you find it covered with a lot of rubbishy thoughts.
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My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They’re just horizontal lines.
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The happiness of every living thing is what we want.
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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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It’s not about facts, it’s about feelings. It’s about remembering feelings and happiness.
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This is the attractiveness of artwork. It is adventurous, strenuous and joyful.
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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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There’s not any hint of nature. And still everybody responds, I think.
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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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The adventurous state of mind is a high house… The joy of adventure is unaccountable.
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I paint with my back to the world
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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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Anything can be painted without representation.
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