CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 3/9/2026

Obedience only to inspiration in 'Agnes Martin: On Beauty'

Featured spreads are from Agnes Martin: On Beauty, Pace Publishing’s elegant new collection of the artist’s meditations on life, work, solitude and silence, which have influenced generations of painters. Featuring several key paintings, including debossed front and back cover images, the book is as poetic, airy and austere as Martin’s work itself. “Hold fast to your life, to beauty and happiness and inspiration, and to obedience to inspiration,” she writes in The Current of the River of Life Moves Us. “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.”