Any material may be used but the theme is the same and the response is the same for all artwork... we all have the same concern, but the artist must know exactly what the experience is. He must pursue the… — 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 exactly what the experience is. He must pursue the truth relentlessly. Once he sees this fact his feet… — 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
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 Copy Share Image
Inspiration is there all the time. For everyone whose mind is not clouded over with thoughts whether they realize it or not. — 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. They are… — Agnes Martin Copy Share Image
