Agnes Martin Quotes

Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.

Art is the objectification of feeling, and the subjectification of nature.

A work of art is a world in itself reflecting senses and emotions of the artist's world.

We want people to experience art and think about it. The art reflects our time, it is about our culture.

Art is the objectification of feeling.

We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth, at least the truth that is given to us to understand.

We should always remember that sensitiveness and emotion constitute the real content of a work of art.

Art points to things. It's a way of giving people not the standard way of looking at the world.

When I look at great works of art or listen to inspired music, I sense intimate portraits of the specific times in which they were created.

The modern work of art, as I have said, is a symbol.

The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.

I think art can reflect tragedy.

So long as the human spirit thrives on this planet, music in some living form will accompany and sustain it and give it expressive meaning.

What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.

If art has a purpose, it is to interpret life, reproduce it in fresh visions.

The mission of art is to represent nature not to imitate her.

Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.

Painting (like poetry) chooses from universals what is most apposite. It brings together, in a single imaginary being, circumstances and characteristics which occur in nature in many different persons.

Any work of art that can be understood is the product of journalism.

Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.

Anything that reflects the human condition back on humans in the entertainment medium is art.

I think that is what film and art and music do; they can work as a map of sorts for your feelings.

Art evokes emotion. It doesn't have to be a thing of beauty.

Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.

One thing that makes art different from life is that in art things have a shape... it allows us to fix our emotions on events at the moment they occur, it permits a union of heart and mind and tongue and tear.