I hope I have made it clear that the work is about perfection as we are aware of it in our minds but that the paintings are very far from being perfect - completely removed in fact - even as we ourselves are.
It is commonly thought that everything that is can be put into words. - Agnes Martin
It is commonly thought that everything that is can be put into words.
- Agnes Martin
It's through discipline and tremendous disappointment and failure that you arrive at what it is you must paint. - Agnes Martin
It's through discipline and tremendous disappointment and failure that you arrive at what it is you must paint.
Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye, it is in the mind. - Agnes Martin
Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye, it is in the mind.
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 our most sub… - Agnes Martin
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 our most sub…
Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings. - Agnes Martin
Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.
To progress in life you must give up the things you do not like. Give up doing the things that you do not like to do. You must find the things that y… - Agnes Martin
To progress in life you must give up the things you do not like. Give up doing the things that you do not like to do. You must find the things that y…
Doing what you were born to do … That's the way to be happy. - Agnes Martin
Doing what you were born to do … That's the way to be happy.
I'm very careful not to have ideas, because they're inaccurate. - Agnes Martin
I'm very careful not to have ideas, because they're inaccurate.
My paintings are not about what is seen. They are about what is known forever in the mind. - Agnes Martin
My paintings are not about what is seen. They are about what is known forever in the mind.
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