To Be An Artist Is To Believe

All Art Should Have A Certain Mystery And Should Make Demands On The Spectator. Giving A Sculpture Or A Drawing Too Explicit A Title Takes Away Part Of That Mystery So That The Spectator Moves On To The Next Object, Making No Effort To Ponder The Meaning Of What He Has Just Seen. Everyone Thinks That He Or She Looks But They Don't Really, You Know.

All The Arts Are Based On The Senses. What They Do For The Person Who Practices Them, And Also The Persons Interested In Them, Is Make That Particular Sense More Active And More Acute.

The Soul Cannot Thrive In The Absence Of Art.

A Work Can Have In It A Pent-up Energy, An Intense Life Of Its Own, Independent Of The Subject It May Represent.

Between Beauty Of Expression And Power Of Expression There Is A Difference Of Function. The First Aims At Pleasing The Senses, The Second Has A Spiritual Vitality Which For Me Is More Moving And Goes Deeper Than The Senses.