Agnes Martin

I don__ believe in influence. I think that in order to be an artist, you have to move. When you stop moving, then you__e no longer an artist. And if you move from somebody else__ position, you simply cannot know the next step. I think that everyone is on his own line. I think that after you__e made one step, the next step reveals itself. I believe that you were born on this line. I don__ say that the actual footsteps were marked before you get to them, and I don__ say that change isn__ possible in your course. But I do believe we unfold out of ourselves, and we do what we are born to do sooner or later, anyway.

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

Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.

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.

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?