Agnes Martin Quotes - Page 2

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• Anything can be painted without representation.

  Agnes Martin

  Representation

  Agnes Martin, Lawrence Alloway, University of Pennsylvania. Institute of Contemporary Art (1973). “Agnes Martin: exhibition January 22 to March 1, 1973”

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• The adventurous state of mind is a high house... The joy of adventure is unaccountable. This is the attractiveness of artwork. It is adventurous, strenuous and joyful.

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  Adventure, House, Joy

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• The enormous pitfall is devotion to oneself instead of to life. All works that are self-devoted are absolutely ineffective.

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  Self, Pitfalls, Devotion

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• Happiness is being on the beam with life - to feel the pull of life

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  Beam, Feels

  Agnes Martin (2005). “Schriften”, Cantz

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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? 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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  Beauty, Thinking, Mysterious Things

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• My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They're just horizontal lines. There's not any hint of nature. And still everybody responds, I think.

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  Art, Thinking, Hints

  "Perfection Is in the Mind". Interview with Joan Simon, August 21, 1995.

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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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  Beauty, Art, Thinking

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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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  Art, Thinking, Worry

  "Perfection Is in the Mind". Interview with Joan Simon, August 21, 1995.

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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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  Art, Perfect, Mind

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

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• 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.

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  Art, Memories, Perfection

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• Any material may be used but the theme is the same and the response is the same for all artwork... 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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  Artist, May, Theme

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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. The happiness of every living thing is what we want.

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  Happiness, Animal, Unhappy

  Agnes Martin (2005). “Schriften”, Cantz

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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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  Art, Perfect, Mind

  Interview with Joan Simon, 1995.

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• The Minimalists are idealist. They want to minimise themselves in favour of the ideal. But I just can't. You see, my paintings are not cool. ... I'm very careful not to have ideas, because they're inaccurate.

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  Ideas, Favour, Want

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