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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.

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.


Agnes Martin  Agnes Martin
Tags: Life  Beauty  Art  Mind  Perfection  Eye 

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Agnes Bernice Martin (March 22, 1912 – December 16, 2004) was a Canadian-born American abstract painter. Her work has been defined as an "essay in discretion on inward-ness and silence".[1] Although she is often considered or referred to as a minimalist, Martin considered herself an abstract expressionist.[2][3] She was awarded a National Medal of Arts from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1998.[4]

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The worst thing you can think about when you're working is yourself.

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 Tags: Yourself Think You Worst Working
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The Minimalists are idealist. They want to minimize themselves in favor of the ideal... But I just can't. You see, my paintings are not cool.

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 Tags: Cool You Want See Idealist Favor
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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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 Tags: Art Mind Forever Seen About Known
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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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 Tags: Painting Perfection Perfect You See
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My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They're just horizontal lines.

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 Tags: Lines Just Horizontal Paintings
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People who look at my painting say that it makes them happy, like the feeling when you wake up in the morning. And happiness is the goal, isn't it?

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 Tags: Morning Happiness Happy Painting You
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To progress in life you must give up the things you do not like. Give up doing the things that you do not like to do. You must find the things that you do like. The things that are acceptable to your mind.

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 Tags: Life Progress Mind Doing You Find
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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.

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 Tags: Life Beauty Art Mind Perfection Eye
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