People think that painting is about color

It’s mostly composition

It’s composition that’s the whole thing

The classic image-

Two late Tang dishes, one with a flower image

one empty. The empty form goes all the way to heaven.

It is the classic form - lighter weight.

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.

When I say it’s alive, it’s inspired

alive

inspiration and life are equivalents and they come from 

outside.

 

-Agnes Martin 1972