There's nobody living who couldn't stand all afternoon in front of a waterfall .... Anyone who can sit on a stone in… — 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… — 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
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 not about what is seen. They are about what is known forever in the mind. — Agnes Martin Copy Share Image
My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They're just horizontal lines. — 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
People who look at my painting say that it makes them happy, like the feeling when you wake up in the morning.… — 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
