Beauty and the Heart

From The Untroubled Mind, Agnes Martin

Victory and defeat and frustration

withdrawing and repentance

then once more pride

the wheel of life

pride

conquest

Victory defeat frustration

remorse repentance

resolution

pride

More people at an earlier age see the conqueror in themselves

then see the way out in another process

the real defeat of ego in which we have no part

The dissolution of ego in reality as it was in the beginning

as it was before we were separate and insular

the process we call destiny

in which we are the material to be dissolved

We eat

We procreate

We die

We can see the process and recognize suffering as the defeat of

ego by the process of destiny

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From The Untroubled Mind, Agnes Martin

Painting is not about ideas or personal emotion

When I was painting in New York I was not so clear about that

Now I’m very clear that the object is freedom

not political freedom, which is to echo

not freedom from social mores

freedom from mastery and slavery

freedom from what’s dragging you down

freedom from right and wrong

In Genesis Eve at the apple of knowledge

of good an evil

When you give up the idea of right and wrong

you don’t get anything

what you do is get rid of everything

freedom from ideas and responsibility

If you live by inspiration then you do what comes to you

you can’t live the moral life, you have to obey destiny

you can’t live the inspired life and live the conventions

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From REFLECTIONS by Agnes Martin

Moments of awareness of perfection and of inspiration are alike

except that inspirations are often directives to action

Many people think that if they are attuned to fate, all their

inspirations will lead them toward what they want and need.

But inspiration is really just the guide to the next thing

and may be what we call success or failure.

The bad paintings have to be painted

and to the artist these are more valuable than those paintings

later brought before the public.

A work of art is successful when there is a hint of perfection

present —

at the slightest hint…the work is alive.

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Painting and art cannot be taught. You can save time if someone tells you to put blue and yellow together to make green, but the essence of painting is a self-disciplined activity that you have to learn by yourself. – Romare Bearden

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Richard Tuttle says….

“The job of the artist is to come up with ideas of how the mystic can be accommodated.”

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“The main subject of my work is this kind of perfection, it’s an experience I’ve had, it’s a kind of metaphysical, or maybe someone else could say a ‘mystical’ experience that’s happened say, three times or four times in my life and I would like it to happen every day and I would like to be able to make a picture or a sculpture where other people can have that experience because when you have that it also clears the mind.”

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The Pace Gallery is honored to present an exhibition of new work by Robert Irwin, on view at 32 East 57th Street TONIGHT from 6 to 8 p.m. Dotting the i’s & Crossing the t’s will be exploring the seminal themes that have defined Irwin’s career, we hope you can come out to see this spectacular show!

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Things are different with Luna: every month she is darkened and extinguished; she cannot hide this from anybody, not even from herself. She knows that this same Luna is now bright and now dark — but who has ever heard of a dark sun? We call this quality of Luna “women’s closeness to nature,” and the fiery brilliance and hot air that plays round the surface of things we like to call “the masculine mind.” Mysterium Coniunctionis: par 331, pg 247

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I paint about happiness, innocence and beauty—the feelings that we have that go beyond the world, that have no worldly cause.

Agnes Martin, Art City: Season 1, Ep. 1

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Sol Lewitt on Conceptual Art

I think that if these instructions, they are given to almost anyone, if they understood the language they could do the work. [That is] comparable to somebody playing a piece of music—the notes are there, anyone who can read notes can play the music, but it’s different each time.

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