It was so flat, you know, you could see the curves of the earth. And when a train came into vision at nine o'clock in the morning, it was still leaving at noon.. ..it took that long to get across the prairie.

Another quote →

Notes from Wikiquote

Martin's quote about the landscape of her youth in Macklin, Saskatchewan, where her parents Malcolm and Margaret Martin farmed the vast, sometimes hard land

More quotes by Agnes Martin

All Agnes Martin quotes →

Attribution

Quote text and notes from Wikiquote: Agnes Martin (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Source quality and labels are our own summary of what Wikiquote records.