“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. You can go in if you don’t encounter anything. A world without objects, without interruption, making a work without interruption or obstacle. It is to accept the necessity of this simple, direct going into a field of vision as you could cross and empty beach to look at the ocean.”
“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
“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 m...”
Agnes Martin
“When I cover the square surface with rectangles, it lightens the weight of the square. Destroys its power.”
Agnes Martin
“I am staying unsettled and trying not to talk for three years. I want to do it very much.”
Agnes Martin