Space Expands Or Contracts In The Tensions

To Experience Visually, And To Transform Our Visual Experience Into Plastic Terms, Requires The Faculty Of Empathy.

The Difference Between The Arts Arises Because Of The Difference In The Nature Of The Mediums Of Expression And The Emphasis Induced By The Nature Of Each Medium. Each Means Of Expression Has Its Own Order Of Being, Its Own Units.

Art Is Something Absolute, Something Positive, Which Gives Power Just As Food Gives Power. While Creative Science Is A Mental Food, Art Is The Satisfaction Of The Soul.

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.

Nature's Purpose In Relation To The Visual Arts Is To Provide Stimulus Not Imitation. From Its Ceaseless Urge To Create Springs All Life - All Movement And Rhythm - Time And Light, Color And Mood - In Short, All Reality In Form And Thought.