Agnes Martin - My paintings are certainly nono...

My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They're just horizontal lines.

Agnes Martin

Canadian Artist

Born: Mar 22, 1912

Died: Dec 16, 2004

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Horizontal, Lines, Just, Certainly, Paintings

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But with Christ, we have access in a one-to-one relationship, for, as in the Old Testament, it was more one of worship and awe, a vertical relationship. The New Testament, on the other hand, we look across at a Jesus who looks familiar, horizontal. The combination is what makes the Cross. Bono

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The trouble with the fast lane is that all the movement is horizontal. And I like to go vertical sometimes. Tom Robbins

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If you bend a branch until it's horizontal, the sap will slow to a stopping point: a comma or colon, made of leaves grown into one another and over one another and hardened. Out of this pause comes a flower, which unfolds itself in spirals, as if the leaf form, unable to keep to its line, had begun to pivot. Alice Oswald

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