Agnes Martin: Beauty, Not Ideas

Full 20 minute version here.

This sentence is my novel.

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From one of 100 or so index cards I typed in 2003, when I stopped painting for a few months (includes original typos):

"This is my protest. Perhaps it serves no one but me, butthat,s not unusualin art. I want to give the people what they want, but I,m not a Social Realist. Is that what they want? Different people want different things, even in these shared disaster times. How important is art wwhen you8re hungry? How important is art when your legs have been blown off; when you8re imprisoned; deported; bombed; on Death Row; bereaved; afraid; dying; deperate; trapped; powerless; angry; sick; outnumbered; scorned; forgotten; ignored; dispossessed; suicidal; damaged beyond repair; slipping further and further down; lost; tricked; poisoned;used; undone. How important is art to youhthen? Do you need beauty, do you crave serenity?"

Good Advice is Warm in Winter, Harsh Words Are Cold in June

良言一句三冬暖，惡語傷人六月寒

In a Sentence Liang 3 Warm in Winter, the Evil Language Wounding June Cold

良言一句三冬暖，惡語傷人六月寒

Liang Made a Three-Winter, Verbal Abuse Wounding Jun Han

良言一句三冬暖，惡語傷人六月寒

A Good Advice Winter is Warm, Speak Daggers Are in June Cold

良言一句三冬暖，惡語傷人六月寒