Nature's Purpose In Relation To The Visual

In Nature, Light Creates The Color. In The Picture, Color Creates The Light.

The Plastic Artist May Or May Not Be Concerned With Presenting A Superficial Appearance Of Reality, But He Is Always Concerned With The Presentation - If Not The Representation - Of The Plastic Values Of Reality.

To Worship The Product And Ignore Its Development Leads To Dilettantism And Reaction.

The Truly Monumental Can Only Come About By Means Of The Most Exact And Refined Relation Between Parts. Since Each Thing Carries Both A Meaning Of Its Own And An Associated Meaning In Relation To Something Else - Its Essential Value Is Relative. We Speak Of The Mood We Experience When Looking At A Landscape. This Mood Results From The Relation Of Certain Things Rather Than From Their Separate Actualities. This Is Because Objects Do Not In Themselves Possess The Total Effect They Give When Interrelated.

We Are Connected With Our Own Age If We Recognize Ourselves In Relation To Outside Events; And We Have Grasped Its Spirit When We Influence The Future.