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Pollock was terrific. I think he freed himself of all kinds of worry about this world. Ran around and dripped, and then he managed to express ecstasy. — Agnes Martin

The main thing in making art often is letting go of your expectation and your idea. — Agnes Martin

Agnes Martin is a big influence in my work actually, when I first saw her, these fine grids. — Robert Barry

Anything can be painted without representation. — Agnes Martin

I think everyone is born 100 percent ego, and after that it's just adjustment. — Agnes Martin

I often paint tranquility. If you stop thinking and rest, then a little happiness comes into your mind. At perfect rest you are comfortable. — Agnes Martin

Happiness is being on the beam with life - to feel the pull of life. — Agnes Martin

What I say is that we're capable of a transcendent response, and I think it makes us happy. And I do think beauty produces a transcendent response. — Agnes Martin

One thing I like about Zen. It doesn't believe in achievement. — Agnes Martin

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

I used to meditate until I learned to stop thinking. — Agnes Martin

People who look at my painting say that it makes them happy, like the feeling when you wake up in the morning. And happiness is the goal, isn't it? — Agnes Martin

The enormous pitfall is devotion to oneself instead of to life. All works that are self-devoted are absolutely ineffective. — Agnes Martin

That which takes us by surprise-moments of happiness-that is inspiration. — Agnes Martin

The Minimalists are idealist. They want to minimize themselves in favor of the ideal ... But I just can't. You see, my paintings are not cool. — Agnes Martin

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

It is commonly thought that everything that is can be put into words. — Agnes Martin

My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They're just horizontal lines. — Agnes Martin

Doing what you were born to do ... That's the way to be happy. — Agnes Martin

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

Fulfill your potential. That's the way to happiness. — Agnes Martin

I don't think the way to succeed is by doing something aggressive. Aggression is weak-minded. — Agnes Martin

Artwork is a representation of our devotion to life. — Agnes Martin

Women don't paint very well. It's a fact. There are, of course, exceptions. Agnes Martin or, from the past, Paula Modersohn-Becker. — Georg Baselitz

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

The worst thing you can think about when you're working is yourself. — Agnes Martin

The value of art is in the observer. — Agnes Martin

I paint with my back to the world — Agnes Martin

Inspiration is there all the time. For everyone whose mind is not clouded over with thoughts whether they realize it or not. — Agnes Martin

Beauty is in the mind, not the eye. — Agnes Martin

Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings. — Agnes Martin

It's through discipline and tremendous disappointment and failure that you arrive at what it is you must paint. — Agnes Martin