Interview with Agnes Martin

 Martin believed her best work came from a well of personal happiness,...

“When I think of art, I think of beauty,” she wrote in the opening of her 1989 essay. “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.”

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