I’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
AGNES MARTINI’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
AGNES MARTINWhen I first made a grid I happened to be thinking of the innocence of trees and then this grid came into my mind and I thought it represented innocence, and I still do, and so I painted it and then I was satisfied. I thought, this is my vision.
AGNES MARTINGive up doing the things that you do not like to do.
AGNES MARTINMy paintings are certainly nonobjective. They’re just horizontal lines.
AGNES MARTINFulfill your potential. That’s the way to happiness.
AGNES MARTINThe happiness of every living thing is what we want.
AGNES MARTINIt would be an endless battle if it were all up to ego because it does not destroy and is not destroyed by itself It is like a wave it makes itself up,It rushes forward getting nowhere really it crashes
AGNES MARTINOne must see the ideal in one’s own mind. It is like a memory – an awareness -of perfection.
AGNES MARTINI once taught art to adults in a night course. I had a woman who painted her back yard, and she said it was the first time she had ever really looked at it. I think everyone sees beauty. Art is a way to respond
AGNES MARTINWhat we really want to do is serve happiness. We want everyone to be happy, never unhappy even for a moment. We want the animals to be happy.
AGNES MARTINI think everyone sees beauty. Art is a way to respond
AGNES MARTINIt is commonly thought that everything that is can be put into words.
AGNES MARTINAll that seems like error is not error; and it all has to be done. That which seems like a false step is the next step.
AGNES MARTINAnything can be painted without representation.
AGNES MARTINThey are immeasurable, completely lacking in substance. They are perfect and sublime. This is the subject matter of art.
AGNES MARTINI used to meditate until I learned to stop thinking.
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