The main thing in making art often is letting go of your expectation and your idea. — Agnes Martin Copy Share Image
You can't make a perfect painting. We can see perfection in our minds. But we can't make a perfect painting. — Agnes Martin Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Beauty and happiness and life are all the same and they are pervasive, unattached and abstract and they are our only concern.… — Agnes Martin Copy Share Image
I once taught art to adults in a night course. I had a woman who painted her back yard, and she said… — Agnes Martin Copy Share Image
Any material may be used but the theme is the same and the response is the same for all artwork... we all… — Agnes Martin Copy Share Image
What I say is that we're capable of a transcendent response, and I think it makes us happy. And I do think… — Agnes Martin Copy Share Image
That which takes us by surprise-moments of happiness-that is inspiration. — Agnes Martin Copy Share Image
I hope I have made it clear that the work is about perfection as we are aware of it in our minds… — Agnes Martin Copy Share Image
Pollock was terrific. I think he freed himself of all kinds of worry about this world. Ran around and dripped, and then… — Agnes Martin Copy Share Image
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… — Agnes Martin Copy Share Image
When I think of art I think of beauty. Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye it… — Agnes Martin Copy Share Image
I would like my work to be recognized as being in the classical tradition (Coptic, Egyptian, Greek, Chinese), as representing the Ideal… — Agnes Martin Copy Share Image
I want to emphasize the fact that we all have the same experience and the same concern, but the artist must know… — Agnes Martin Copy Share Image
I once taught art to adults in a night course. I had a woman who painted her back yard, and she said it was… — Agnes Martin Copy Share Image
There's nobody living who couldn't stand all afternoon in front of a waterfall … Anyone who can sit on a stone in a field… — Agnes Martin Copy Share Image
The adventurous state of mind is a high house... The joy of adventure is unaccountable. This is the attractiveness of artwork. It is adventurous,… — Agnes Martin Copy Share Image
The enormous pitfall is devotion to oneself instead of to life. All works that are self-devoted are absolutely ineffective. — Agnes Martin Copy Share Image
The Minimalists are idealist. They want to minimise themselves in favour of the ideal. But I just can't. You see, my paintings are not… — Agnes Martin Copy Share Image
When you look in your mind you find it covered with a lot of rubbishy thoughts. You have to penetrate these and hear what… — Agnes Martin Copy Share Image
I think everyone is born 100 percent ego, and after that it's just adjustment. — Agnes Martin Copy Share Image
When I first made a grid, I happened to be thinking of the innocence of trees, and then a grid came into my mind… — Agnes Martin Copy Share Image
