This is the attractiveness of artwork. It is adventurous, strenuous and joyful.
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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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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The worst thing you can think about when you’re working is yourself.
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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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I hope I have made it clear that the work is about perfection as we are aware of it in our minds but that the paintings are very far from being perfect – completely removed in fact – even as we ourselves are.
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I think our minds respond to things beyond this world. Take beauty: it’s a very mysterious thing, isn’t it?
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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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Give up doing the things that you do not like to do.
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There’s not any hint of nature. And still everybody responds, I think.
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Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.
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Happiness is being on the beam with life – to feel the pull of life
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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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Anything can be painted without representation.
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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 paint with my back to the world
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