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Top 30 Agnes Martin Quotes (2024 Update)

Agnes Martin Quote: “Fulfill your potential. That’s the way to happiness.”

1. “Fulfill your potential. That’s the way to happiness.”

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Agnes Martin Quote: “I paint with my back to the world.”

2. “I paint with my back to the world.”

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Agnes Martin Quote: “I often paint tranquility. If you stop thinking and rest, then a little happiness comes into your mind. At perfect rest you are comfortable.”

3. “I often paint tranquility. If you stop thinking and rest, then a little happiness comes into your mind. At perfect rest you are comfortable.”

— Agnes Martin

Agnes Martin Quote: “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 emotions. I think the highest form of art is music. It’s the most abstract of all art expression.”

4. “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 emotions. I think the highest form of art is music. It’s the most abstract of all art expression.”

— Agnes Martin

Agnes Martin Quote: “Happiness is being on the beam with life – to feel the pull of life.”

5. “Happiness is being on the beam with life – to feel the pull of life.”

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Agnes Martin Quote: “Of all the pitfalls in our paths and the tremendous delays and wanderings off the track I want to say that they are not what they seem to be. I want to say that all that seems like fantastic mistakes are not mistakes, all that seems like error is not error; and it all has to be done. That which seems like a false step is the next step.”

6. “Of all the pitfalls in our paths and the tremendous delays and wanderings off the track I want to say that they are not what they seem to be. I want to say that all that seems like fantastic mistakes are not mistakes, all that seems like error is not error; and it all has to be done. That which seems like a false step is the next step.”

— Agnes Martin

Agnes Martin Quote: “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.”

7. “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.”

— Agnes Martin

Agnes Martin Quote: “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 I thought it represented innocence, and I still do, and so I painted it and then I was satisfied. I thought, this is my vision.”

8. “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 I thought it represented innocence, and I still do, and so I painted it and then I was satisfied. I thought, this is my vision.”

— Agnes Martin

Agnes Martin Quote: “It is commonly thought that everything that is can be put into words.”

9. “It is commonly thought that everything that is can be put into words.”

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Agnes Martin Quote: “It’s through discipline and tremendous disappointment and failure that you arrive at what it is you must paint.”

10. “It’s through discipline and tremendous disappointment and failure that you arrive at what it is you must paint.”

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Agnes Martin Quote: “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.”

11. “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.”

— Agnes Martin

Agnes Martin Quote: “My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They’re just horizontal lines. There’s not any hint of nature. And still everybody responds, I think.”

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

— Agnes Martin

Agnes Martin Quote: “Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.”

13. “Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.”

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Agnes Martin Quote: “That which takes us by surprise-moments of happiness-that is inspiration.”

14. “That which takes us by surprise-moments of happiness-that is inspiration.”

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Agnes Martin Quote: “Inspiration is there all the time. For everyone whose mind is not clouded over with thoughts whether they realize it or not.”

15. “Inspiration is there all the time. For everyone whose mind is not clouded over with thoughts whether they realize it or not.”

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Agnes Martin Quote: “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.”

16. “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.”

— Agnes Martin

Agnes Martin Quote: “I’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.”

17. “I’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.”

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Agnes Martin Quote: “The enormous pitfall is devotion to oneself instead of to life. All works that are self-devoted are absolutely ineffective.”

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

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Agnes Martin Quote: “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.”

19. “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.”

— Agnes Martin

Agnes Martin Quote: “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.”

20. “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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Agnes Martin Quote: “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.”

21. “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.”

— Agnes Martin

Agnes Martin Quote: “When you look in your mind you find it covered with a lot of rubbishy thoughts. You have to penetrate these and hear what your mind is telling you to do. Such work is original work.”

22. “When you look in your mind you find it covered with a lot of rubbishy thoughts. You have to penetrate these and hear what your mind is telling you to do. Such work is original work.”

— Agnes Martin

Agnes Martin Quote: “Anything can be painted without representation.”

23. “Anything can be painted without representation.”

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Agnes Martin Quote: “I used to meditate until I learned to stop thinking.”

24. “I used to meditate until I learned to stop thinking.”

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Agnes Martin Quote: “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 first time she had ever really looked at it. I think everyone sees beauty. Art is a way to respond.”

25. “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 first time she had ever really looked at it. I think everyone sees beauty. Art is a way to respond.”

— Agnes Martin

Agnes Martin Quote: “You can’t make a perfect painting. We can see perfection in our minds. But we can’t make a perfect painting.”

26. “You can’t make a perfect painting. We can see perfection in our minds. But we can’t make a perfect painting.”

— Agnes Martin

Agnes Martin Quote: “My paintings are not about what is seen. They are about what is known forever in the mind.”

27. “My paintings are not about what is seen. They are about what is known forever in the mind.”

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Agnes Martin Quote: “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.”

28. “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.”

— Agnes Martin

Agnes Martin Quote: “You sort of underestimate the human being when you say that every least thing that is an abstract experience is spiritual. It isn’t. It’s just your real self. You can be capable of fantastic abstract experiences, right in this life.”

29. “You sort of underestimate the human being when you say that every least thing that is an abstract experience is spiritual. It isn’t. It’s just your real self. You can be capable of fantastic abstract experiences, right in this life.”

— Agnes Martin

Agnes Martin Quote: “The way of an artist is an entirely different way. It is a way of surrender.”

30. “The way of an artist is an entirely different way. It is a way of surrender.”

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Agnes Martin Quote: “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.”

31. “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.”

— Agnes Martin

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