“My work is anti-nature
The four-story mountain
You will not think form, space, line, contour
Just a suggestion of nature gives weight
light and heavy
light like a feather
you get light enough and you levitate”

—  Agnes Martin

1970's, The Untroubled Mind', 1971

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American artist 1912–2004

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