Agnes Martin Quotes About Painting

Quotes about: Painting

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

  Agnes Martin

  Forever, Perception, Mind

• My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They're just horizontal lines. There's not any hint of nature. And still everybody responds, I think.

  Agnes Martin

  Art, Thinking, Hints

  "Perfection Is in the Mind". Interview with Joan Simon, August 21, 1995.

• There's nobody living who couldn't stand all afternoon in front of a waterfall .... Anyone who can sit on a stone in a field awhile can see my painting. Nature is like parting a curtain, you go into it .... as you would cross an empty beach to look at the ocean.

  Agnes Martin

  Beach, Nature, Ocean

• You can't make a perfect painting. We can see perfection in our minds. But we can't make a perfect painting.

  Agnes Martin

  Art, Perfect, Mind

  Interview with Joan Simon, 1995.

• 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.

  Agnes Martin

  Art, Perfect, Mind

  Ned Rifkin, Agnes Martin, Edward Hirsch, Menil Collection (Houston, Tex.) (2002). “Agnès Martin: the nineties and beyond”, Hatje Cantz Pub

• The Minimalists are idealist. They want to minimise themselves in favour of the ideal. But I just can't. You see, my paintings are not cool. ... I'm very careful not to have ideas, because they're inaccurate.

  Agnes Martin

  Ideas, Favour, Want

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