I Have Always Tried To Hide My

You Want To Paint? First Of All You Must Cut Off Your Tongue Because Your Decision Takes Away From You The Right To Express Yourself With Anything But Your Brush.

With Greater Completeness And Abstraction, I Have Attained A Form Filtered To Its Essentials.

If Drawing Belongs To The World Of Spirit And Color To That Of The Senses, You Must Draw First To Cultivate The Spirit.

It Would Be A Mistake To Ascribe This Creative Power To An Inborn Talent. In Art, The Genius Creator Is Not Just A Gifted Being, But A Person Who Has Succeeded In Arranging For Their Appointed End, A Complex Of Activities, Of Which The Work Is The Outcome. The Artist Begins With A Vision — A Creative Operation Requiring An Effort. Creativity Takes Courage.

It Has Always Bothered Me That I Don't Paint Like Everyone Else