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

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

Doing what you were born to do … That's the way to be happy.

- 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…

- Agnes Martin

I'm very careful not to have ideas, because they're inaccurate.

- Agnes Martin

Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye, it is in the mind.

- Agnes Martin

Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.

- Agnes Martin

My paintings are not about what is seen. They are about what is known forever in the mind.

- Agnes Martin