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okaylili's review
challenging
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
5.0
Poetic notes composed in a dense, aphoristic manner which investigate the concepts of beauty and perception and work/creation and awareness/consciousness. Through them, Agnes Martin intends to create impressions on the way one thinks of art and life alike (as well as what it is to live as a committed artist - what is an artist? what is living?). The type of poems where you glean something new from each reread. I wanna make annotations all over them.
jam's review
4.0
Hold fast to your life, to beauty and happiness and inspiration, and to obedience to inspiration.
Do not imitate others or seek advice anywhere except from your own mind. No-one can help you. No-one knows what your life should be. No-one knows what your life or life itself should be because it is in the process of being created.
oh, there was so much to learn from this little book. agnes martin is a mentor in happiness, inspiration, beauty and perfection. her ways of thinking are so different from how were taught to think that they had to be said, written, and read by many. i enjoyed this book for more than the first half.
however, i began to disagree with her sentiments that "it is not in the role of an artist to worry about life, to feel responsible for creating a better world," and that an artist must "give up all reform and political considerations" for it is in the way of art/beauty/perfection. in this world we can't afford to be non-political, and if that means rejecting happiness through perfection then so be it.
Do not imitate others or seek advice anywhere except from your own mind. No-one can help you. No-one knows what your life should be. No-one knows what your life or life itself should be because it is in the process of being created.
oh, there was so much to learn from this little book. agnes martin is a mentor in happiness, inspiration, beauty and perfection. her ways of thinking are so different from how were taught to think that they had to be said, written, and read by many. i enjoyed this book for more than the first half.
however, i began to disagree with her sentiments that "it is not in the role of an artist to worry about life, to feel responsible for creating a better world," and that an artist must "give up all reform and political considerations" for it is in the way of art/beauty/perfection. in this world we can't afford to be non-political, and if that means rejecting happiness through perfection then so be it.
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