All Agnes Martin Quotes
- 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… Adventure
- That which takes us by surprise-moments of happiness-that is inspiration. Art
- 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… All
- You can't make a perfect painting. We can see perfection in our minds. But we can't make a perfect painting. Art
- 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… Art
- 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… Art
- My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They're just horizontal lines. There's not any hint of nature. And still everybody responds, I think. Any
- 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… Art
- 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… Bad
- The enormous pitfall is devotion to oneself instead of to life. All works that are self-devoted are absolutely ineffective. Absolutely
- The worst thing you can think about when you’re working is yourself, Inspirational
- I'm very careful not to have ideas, because they're inaccurate. Careful
- Doing what you were born to do … That's the way to be happy. Born
- 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… Came
- I once taught art to adults in a night course. I had a woman who painted her back yard, and she said it was the… Adults
- Anything can be painted without representation. Funny
- Fulfill your potential. That's the way to happiness. Fulfill
- Happiness is being on the beam with life - to feel the pull of life Beam
- 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… All
- 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.… Art
- I used to meditate until I learned to stop thinking. Inspirational
- I often paint tranquility. If you stop thinking and rest, then a little happiness comes into your mind. At perfect rest you are comfortable. Comfortable
- Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye, it is in the mind. Beauty
- It's not about facts, it's about feelings. It's about remembering feelings and happiness. A definition of art is that it makes concrete our most subtle… Abstract
- 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… Animal