Agnès Martin citations (48 citations, Page 2)

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Agnès Martin: Citations en anglais

“Although we are all different, we all respond to each other's suggestions of perfection. And we enjoy the same response as the artist. It is the inner contemplation, the wanting to respond to life, that opens our eyes to what is already in the mind.”

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1980 - 2000, The Skowhegan Lecture', 1987

“Architect/arcetects/arcatects/arcetects/archetes”

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Martin wrote this at the bottom of her notes, 1974; as quoted in 'AGNES MARTIN' by Mira Dayal, Artseen Nov. 2016
the rest of the page is a tangle of equations and small diagrams as start of another burst of production: her iconic striped canvases.
1970's

“I was very happy. I thought I would cut my way through life.... victory after victory, [laughing.. ] Well, I adjusted as soon as they carried me into my mother. Half of my victories fell to the ground.. [she pauses].. My mother had victories.”

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her candid, weather-beaten face darkens abruptly
Mary Lance, in 'With My Back to the World' a documentary made in 2002; as quoted by Olivia Laing,
Martin claimed she could remember the exact moment of her birth. She had entered the world, she tells Lance, 'as a small figure with a little sword'
after 2000

“I used to pay attention to the clouds in the sky... I paid close attention for a month to see if they ever repeated. They don't repeat. And I don't think life does either. It's continually various. That's the truth about life.”

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Denise Spranger, in 'Center of Attention', Taos News/Tempo Magazine, Mar. 21–27, 2002, p. 22
after 2000

“When we realize that we can see life we gradually give up the things that stand in the way of our complete awareness. As we paint we move along step by step. We realize that we are guided in our work by awareness of life.”

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from her 1989 piece for 'Artspace', 'The Current of the River of Life Moves Us'
1980 - 2000

“Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings. That's the end”

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of the interview
1980 - 2000, Perfection Is in the Mind', 1995

“I painted for 20 years without liking them very much, you know. I burnt them at the end of every year. For 20 years I burnt the whole bunch because I didn't want them to get in the market. And well, sometimes when I was starving, I used to sell one cheap, you know. But I always regretted it because you hate to think of a painting in somebody's house that you don't like well enough, you know.”

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after 2000, Agnes Martin: Between the Lines', 2002

“I used to look in my mind for the unwritten page
if my mind was empty enough I could see it
I didn't paint the plane
I just drew this horizontal line
Then I found out about all the other lines
But I realized what I liked was the horizontal line
Then I painted the two rectangles
correct composition
if they're just right”

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1970's, The Untroubled Mind', 1971

“Nature is like parting a curtain, you go into it. I want to draw a certain response like this.... that quality of response from people when they leave themselves behind, often experienced in nature, an experience of simple joy... My paintings are about merging, about formlessness... A world without objects, without interruption.”

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Ann Wilson, from her talks in the Summer of 1972 at Agnes Martin's home in Mexico - an unpublished document; as quoted in Agnes Martin: Her Life and Art, Chapter 7 - 'Departures', Nancy Princenthal; Thames and Hudson, New York, p. 195-196
Wilson's visit to Cuba in Mexico was to work towards the publication accompanying Martin's exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia in 1973, curated by Suzanne Delehanty
1970's

“Inspiration comes from a clear mind. Right straight through. We have nothing to do with it.”

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1976
1970's, interview, K. Horsfield & L. Blumenthal

“It is commonly thought that everything that is can be put into words. But there is a wide range of emotional response that we make that cannot be put into words. We are so used to making these emotional responses that we are not consciously aware of them till they are represented in art work.”

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In 'Beauty Is the Mystery of Life', 1989; a lecture by Agnes Martin, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, 1989. Printed in Agnes Martin, eds. Morris and Bell, pp. 158–59
1980 - 2000

“Take beauty: it's a very mysterious thing, isn't it? I think it's a response in our minds to perfection... My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They're just horizontal lines. There's not any hint of nature. And still everybody responds, I think.”

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1980 - 2000, Perfection Is in the Mind', 1995

“.. the function of art work is.... the renewal of memories of moments of perfection.”

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remark in 1973; as quoted by Amy Flanagan in [file:///C:/Users/Fons/Downloads/The%20Subtle%20Emotive%3B%20Agnes%20Martin.pdf 'The Subtle emotive; Material and Experience in the Works of Agnes Martin'], essay redraft, 2015, p. 1
1970's

“It was so flat, you know, you could see the curves of the earth. And when a train came into vision at nine o'clock in the morning, it was still leaving at noon.... it took that long to get across the prairie.”

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In Mary Lance's intimate documentary 'With My Back to the World' (2002)
Martin's quote about the landscape of her youth in Macklin, Saskatchewan, where her parents Malcolm and Margaret Martin farmed the vast, sometimes hard land
after 2000

“I am simply painting concrete representation of abstract emotions such as innocent love, ordinary happiness. I do want an emotional response. And I paint about emotions, not about lines. The truth is that it's not the lines that express the emotion. It's the scale of the composition. You know, if you go into a room that has perfect scale, you feel it... If the painting has perfect scale, it moves you. And you have different scale to show different emotions. It's the space between the lines that counts.”

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after 2000, Agnes Martin: Between the Lines', 2002

“Beauty is very much broader than just to the eye. It is our whole, positive response to life. An artist is fortunate in that his work is the inner contemplation of beauty, of perfection in life. We cannot make anything perfectly, but with inner contemplation of perfection, we can suggest it.”

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1980 - 2000, The Skowhegan Lecture', 1987

“Inspiration is pervasive but not a power.
It's a peaceful thing.
It is a consolation even to plants and animals.
Do not think that it is unique.
If it were unique no one would be able to respond to your work.”

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Source: 1970's, The Untroubled Mind', 1972, p. 62

“Bring ice, thanks, Agnes”

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as quoted by Olivia Laing, in 'Agnes Martin: the artist mystic who disappeared into the desert' https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2015/may/22/agnes-martin-the-artist-mystic-who-disappeared-into-the-desert, The Guardian, 22 May 2015
In June 1974, she appeared out of the blue at Pace gallery [in New York] and asked if they'd like to show her new work. She invited Glimcher to come to Mexico and view it, posting him a hand-drawn map, at the bottom of which she had scrawled 'bring ice thanks Agnes'. When he arrived she showed him five new paintings, made of either horizontal or vertical stripes in ice blue and red so watered it was barely pink. At 62, Martin had found a new visual language
1970's