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Art Quotes by Agnes Martin
- That which takes us by surprise-moments of happiness-that is inspiration.
- 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…
- You can't make a perfect painting. We can see perfection in our minds. But we can't make a perfect painting.
- 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…
- 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…
- My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They're just horizontal lines. There's not any hint of nature. And still everybody responds, I think.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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.…
- 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…
- Beauty and happiness and life are all the same and they are pervasive, unattached and abstract and they are our only concern. They are immeasurable,…
- Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.
- The main thing in making art often is letting go of your expectation and your idea.
- The value of art is in the observer.
More Art Quotes
- A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and… — Pietro Aretino
- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. — Aristotle
- Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we… — Aristotle
- It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle
- I'd love to go to art school. I'd love to learn how to draw. I'd love to be fluent in Spanish. I'd… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex, you have… — Karen Armstrong
- I think it's important as a filmmaker, as any person working in the arts, that you've got to try new stuff and… — Darren Aronofsky
- I don't care who you are, you're going to choke in certain matches. You get to a point where your legs don't… — Arthur Ashe
- Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers. — Isaac Asimov