A Mountain Seen In The Haze Of

Students Work In Schools Making Life Studies For Years, Win Prizes For Life Studies And Find In The End That They Know Practically Nothing Of The Human Figure. They Have Acquired The Ability To Copy.

Perhaps Whatever There Is In My Work That May Be Really Interesting To Others And Surely What Is Interesting To Me, Is The Result Of A Sometimes Successful Effort To Free Myself From Any Idea That What I Produce Must Be Art.

To Paint Is To Know How To Put Nothing On Canvas, And Have It Look Like Something When You Stand Back.

All Outward Success, When It Has Value, Is But The Inevitable Result Of An Inward Success Of Full Living, Full Play And Enjoyment Of One's Faculties.

You Form A Society: That Limits You. Adopt A Name, And You've Limited Yourself Again; Draw Up A Constitution And Bylaws And You've Made A Groove, A Rut, That Hampers Your Growth. You Think You Can Fix Your Course And Move Straight Along It. But Sometimes The Important Thing Is To Strike Out Sidewise.