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The Truly Monumental Can Only Come About By Means Of The Most Exact And Refined Relation Between Parts. Since Each Thing Carries Both A Meaning Of Its Own And An Associated Meaning In Relation To Something Else - Its Essential Value Is Relative. We Speak Of The Mood We Experience When Looking At A Landscape. This Mood Results From The Relation Of Certain Things Rather Than From Their Separate Actualities. This Is Because Objects Do Not In Themselves Possess The Total Effect They Give When Interrelated.

As A Teacher I Approach My Students Purely With The Human Desire To Free Them From All Scholarly Inhibitions, And I Tell Them, "painters Must Speak Through Paint Not Through Words."

The Ability To Simplify Means To Eliminate The Unnecessary So That The Necessary May Speak.

In Nature, Light Creates The Color. In The Picture, Color Creates The Light.

Space Expands Or Contracts In The Tensions And Functions Through Which It Exists. Space Is Not A Static, Inert Thing. Space Is Alive; Space Is Dynamic; Space Is Imbued With Movement Expressed By Forces And Counterforces; Space Vibrates And Resounds With Color, Light And Form In The Rhythm Of Life.