An Idea Can Only Be Materialized With

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.

Art Leads To A More Profound Concept Of Life, Because Art Itself Is A Profound Expression Of Feeling. The Artist Is Born, And Art Is The Expression Of His Overflowing Soul. Because His Soul Is Rich, He Cares Comparatively Little About The Superficial Necessities Of The Material World; He Sublimates The Pressure Of Material Affairs In An Artistic Experience.

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.

Genius Is Gifted With A Vitality Which Is Expended In The Enrichment Of Life Through The Discovery Of New Worlds Of Feeling.

It Is Not The Form That Dictates The Color, But The Color That Brings Out The Form.