Orange Is Red Brought Nearer To Humanity

Those [things] That We Encounter For The First Time Immediately Have A Spiritual Effect Upon Us. A Child, For Whom Every Object Is New, Experiences The World In This Way: It Sees Light, Is Attracted By It, Wants To Grasp It, Burns Its Finger In The Process, And Thus Learns Fear And Respect For The Flame.

There Is, However, In Art Another Kind Of External Similarity Which Is Founded On A Fundamental Truth. When There Is A Similarity Of Inner Tendency In The Whole Moral And Spiritual Atmosphere, A Similarity Of Ideals, At First Closely Pursued But Later Lost To Sight, A Similarity In The Inner Feeling Of Any One Period To That Of Another, The Logical Result Will Be A Revival Of The External Forms Which Served To Express Those Inner Feelings In An Earlier Age.

Our Epoch Is A Time Of Tragic Collision Between Matter And Spirit And Of The Downfall Of The Purely Material World View.

It Is Essential That The Painter Should Develop Not Only His Eyes, But Also His Soul, So That It Too May Be Capable Of Weighing Colors In Balance.

Every Work Of Art Is The Child Of Its Age And, In Many Cases, The Mother Of Our Emotions. It Follows That Each Period Of Culture Produces An Art Of Its Own Which Can Never Be Repeated.