Agnes Martin Quotes About Perfection

Quotes about: Perfection

• When I think of art I think of beauty. Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye it is in the mind. In our minds there is awareness of perfection.

  Agnes Martin

  Beauty, Art, Eye

  Agnes Martin, Heinz Liesbrock, Josef-Albers-Museum (2004). “Agnes Martin: the islands”, Richter Verlag

• You can't make a perfect painting. We can see perfection in our minds. But we can't make a perfect painting.

  Agnes Martin

  Art, Perfect, Mind

  Interview with Joan Simon, 1995.

• 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.

  Agnes Martin

  Art, Perfect, Mind

  Ned Rifkin, Agnes Martin, Edward Hirsch, Menil Collection (Houston, Tex.) (2002). “Agnès Martin: the nineties and beyond”, Hatje Cantz Pub

• I think our minds respond to things beyond this world. Take beauty: it's a very mysterious thing, isn't it? 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.

  Agnes Martin

  Beauty, Thinking, Mysterious Things

• I would like my work to be recognized as being in the classical tradition (Coptic, Egyptian, Greek, Chinese), as representing the Ideal in the mind. Classical art cannot possibly be eclectic. One must see the ideal in one's own mind. It is like a memory - an awareness -of perfection.

  Agnes Martin

  Art, Memories, Perfection

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