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, completely lacking in substance. They are perfect and sublime. This is the subject matter of art.
It is commonly thought that everything that is can be put into words. - Agnes Martin
It is commonly thought that everything that is can be put into words.
- Agnes Martin
It's through discipline and tremendous disappointment and failure that you arrive at what it is you must paint. - Agnes Martin
It's through discipline and tremendous disappointment and failure that you arrive at what it is you must paint.
Doing what you were born to do … That's the way to be happy. - Agnes Martin
Doing what you were born to do … That's the way to be happy.
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 y… - Agnes Martin
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 y…
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 sub… - Agnes Martin
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 sub…
Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye, it is in the mind. - Agnes Martin
Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye, it is in the mind.
Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings. - Agnes Martin
Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.
I'm very careful not to have ideas, because they're inaccurate. - Agnes Martin
I'm very careful not to have ideas, because they're inaccurate.
My paintings are not about what is seen. They are about what is known forever in the mind. - Agnes Martin
My paintings are not about what is seen. They are about what is known forever in the mind.
Login to join the discussion
Login to join the discussion