All Art Is An Abstraction To Some

If An Artist Tries Consciously To Do Something To Others, It Is To Stretch Their Eyes, Their Thoughts, To Something They Would Not See Or Feel If The Artist Had Not Done It. To Do This, He Has To Stretch His Own First.

I Sometimes Begin A Drawing With No Preconceived Problem To Solve, With Only The Desire To Use Pencil On Paper... But As My Eye Takes In What Is So Produced, A Point Arrives Where Some Idea Crystallizes, And Then A Control And Ordering Begins To Take Place.

The Observation Of Nature Is Part Of An Artist's Life, It Enlarges His Form [and] Knowledge, Keeps Him Fresh And From Working Only By Formula, And Feeds Inspiration.

One Mustn't Let Technique Be The Consciously Important Thing. It Should Be At The Service Of Expressing The Form.

People Think That They See, But They Don't.