"To live truly and effectively the idea of achievement must be given up. Put unsentimental piety first, turn your back on the world, and get on with it."
— Agnes Martin

January 1, 1970

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In Martin's open letter, 1981 to the Whitney Museum of American Art; as quoted in 'The Heroic Art of Agnes Martin', by Hilton Als, NYR 14 July 2016