A Work Of Art Is A World

The Creative Process Lies Not In Imitating, But In Paralleling Nature - Translating The Impulse Received From Nature Into The Medium Of Expression, Thus Vitalizing This Medium. The Picture Should Be Alive, The Statue Should Be Alive, And Every Work Of Art Should Be Alive.

A Thought Functions Only As A Fragmentary Part In The Formulation Of An Idea.

A Work Of Art Is Finished, From The Point Of View Of The Artist, When Feeling And Perception Have Resulted In A Spiritual Synthesis.

Just As Counterpoint And Harmony Follow Their Own Laws, And Differ In Rhythm And Movement, Both Formal Tensions And Color Tensions Have A Development Of Their Own In Accordance With The Inherent Laws From Which They Are Separately Derived. Both, However, Aim Toward The Realization Of The Same Image. And Both Deal With The Depth Problem.

Depth, In A Pictorial, Plastic Sense, Is Not Created By The Arrangement Of Objects One After Another Toward A Vanishing Point, In The Sense Of The Renaissance Perspective, But On The Contrary (and In Absolute Denial Of This Doctrine) By The Creation Of Forces In The Sense Of Push And Pull . Nor Is Depth Created By Tonal Gradation (another Doctrine Of The Academician Which, At Its Culmination, Degraded The Use Of Color To A Mere Function Of Expressing Dark And Light).