My Aim In Painting Is To Create

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

I Can't Understand How Anyone Is Able To Paint Without Optimism.

A Work Based Only On A Line Concept Is Scarcely More Than A Illustration; It Fails To Achieve Pictorial Structure. Pictorial Structure Is Based On A Plane Concept. The Line Originates In The Meeting Of Two Planes ... We Can Lose Ourselves In A Multitude Of Lines, If Through Them We Lose Our Senses For The Planes.

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.

It Isn't Necessary To Make Things Large To Make Them Monumental; A Head By Giacometti One Inch High Would Be Able To Vitalize This Whole Space.