Agnes Martin

I was coming out of the mountains…I came out on this plain, and I thought, Ah!  What a relief!…This is for me!  The expansiveness.  I sort of surrendered…This plain…it was just like a straight line.  It was a horizontal line.  And I thought there wasn’t a line that affected me like a horizontal line.  Then, I found that the more I drew that line, the happier I got.  First I thought it was like the sea…then I thought it was like singing!  Well, I just went to town on this horizontal line.  But I didn’t like it without any verticals…But I did put a few in there.  Finally, I was putting in almost as many verticals as horizontals…Well, I’ve been doing those grids for years.
                                                           --  Agnes Martin