“I am grateful for the [financial] assistance I received last year [1955] through the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation. It gave me the materials I needed and a certain amount of security and enabled me to make a very good try for my New York show. This did not succeed but Miss Betty Parsons whose gallery I will eventually show in assured me that in one more year she thought I could make it, which is not discouraging.. .I painted all together one hundred canvasses of which I had a good opinion and sold seven [in a year].”
“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
“Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.”
Agnes Martin
“When I cover the square surface with rectangles, it lightens the weight of the square. Destroys its power.”
Agnes Martin
“My [artworks] have neither object nor space nor line nor anything – no forms. They are light, lightness, about merging, about formlessness, breaking down form. You wouldn’t think of form by the ocean....”
Agnes Martin
“I am staying unsettled and trying not to talk for three years. I want to do it very much.”
Agnes Martin