Posts Tagged ‘Art’
Returning to the work of Agnes Martin…
Mildred Tolbert, "Agnes Martin", ca. 1954, photograph, 9 1/2 x 6 1/2
“I think everyone is born 100 percent ego, and after that it’s just adjustment.”
“I’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate”
I know that in my little notebooks on scraps of paper, everything is beautiful, It all works seamlessly. And when you get there, it’s all like a nightmare. The main thing in making art often is letting go of your expectation and your idea.”
“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.”
“The work of artists is an investigation into truth, and you’re going to see it in your mind, you own mind.”
“Artwork is a representation of our devotion to life. The enormous pitfall is devotion to oneself instead of to life. All works that are self-devoted are absolutely ineffective.”
“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.”
(Photo: Mildred Tolbert, “Agnes Martin”, ca. 1954, photograph, 9 1/2 x 6 1/2)
