What I say is that we're capable of a transcendent response, and I think it makes us happy. And I do think beauty produces a transcendent response. — 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 is in the mind. In our minds there is awareness of perfection. — 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
