Beauty is the mystery of life

Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not the eye it is in the mind. In our minds there is awareness of perfection.
We respond to beauty with emotion.
Beauty is an awareness in the mind.
When you think of something that you should do the inner mind says "yes" and you feel elated. We call this inspritation.
For an artist this is the only way. There is no help anywhere. He must listen to his own mind.
Art work is responded to with happy emotions. Work about ideas is responded to with other ideas.


-Agnes Martin: Beauty is the Mystery of Life" and "Journal Excerpts" in Agnes Martin.
New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1993