Agnes Martin Quotes
What we really want to do is serve happiness. We want everyone to be happy, never unhappy even for a moment. We want the animals to be happy. The happiness of every living thing is what we want.
Martin, Agnes. "What We Do Not See if We Do Not See." Agnes Martin: Writings, edited by Dieter Schwarz, Hatje Cantz, 2005, p. 115.
Agnes Bernice Martin, RCA, was a Canadian-born American abstract painter. Her work has been defined as an "essay in discretion on inward-ness and silence". Although she is often considered or referred to as a minimalist, Martin considered herself an abstract expressionist. She was awarded a National Medal of Arts from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1998. She was elected to the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts in 2004.
