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

—  Agnes Martin

interview with Joan Simon, 1995 in Perfection is in the Mind, p. 86; as quoted in A House Divided: American Art Since 1955, Anne M. G. Wagner, Univ. of California Press, 2012, p. 263
1980 - 2000

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