Every Picture One Paints Involves Not Painting

It Is True That Every Artist Has His Own Religion.

One's Art Is Just One's Effort To Wed Oneself To The Universe, To Unify Oneself Through Union.

The Abstractness Of Modern Art Has To Do With How Much An Enlightened Mind Rejects Of The Contemporary Social Order.

If One Were To Ask A Painter What He Felt About Anything, His Just Response - Though He Seldom Makes It - Would Be To Paint It, And In Painting, To Find Out.

If You Give A Child Something Very Complex To Paint, Such As A Bouquet Of Flowers Or A Natural Landscape, If He Is Very Good, Eventually He Will Get Back - Like Cezanne - To The Essential Forms Of What He Sees.