When I first made a grid I happened to be thinking of the innocence of — Agnes Martin

"It was so flat, you know, you could see the curves of the earth. And when a train came into vision at nine oclock in the morning, it was still leaving at noon.. ..it took that long to get across the prairie."

"The adventurous state of / mind is a high house // To enjoy life the adventurous / state of mind must be / grasped and maintained // The essential feature of adventure is that it is a / going forward into / unknown territory // The joy of adventure is unaccountable // This is the attractiveness of / art work. It is adventurous, / strenuous and joyful."

"I am staying unsettled and trying not to talk for three years. I want to do it very much."

"When I cover the square surface with rectangles, it lightens the weight of the square. Destroys its power."

"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"

"I am grateful for the [financial] assistance I received last year [1955] through the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation. It gave me the materials I needed and a certain amount of security and enabled me to make a very good try for my New York show. This did not succeed but Miss Betty Parsons whose gallery I will eventually show in assured me that in one more year she thought I could make it, which is not discouraging.. .I painted all together one hundred canvasses of which I had a good opinion and sold seven [in a year]."