To Worship The Product And Ignore Its

To Sense The Invisible And To Be Able To Create It, That Is Art.

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.

A Thought Functions Only As A Fragmentary Part In The Formulation Of An Idea.

Depth, In A Pictorial, Plastic Sense, Is Not Created By The Arrangement Of Objects One After Another Toward A Vanishing Point, In The Sense Of The Renaissance Perspective, But On The Contrary (and In Absolute Denial Of This Doctrine) By The Creation Of Forces In The Sense Of Push And Pull . Nor Is Depth Created By Tonal Gradation (another Doctrine Of The Academician Which, At Its Culmination, Degraded The Use Of Color To A Mere Function Of Expressing Dark And Light).

The Whole World, As We Experience It Visually, Comes To Us Through The Mystic Realm Of Color. Our Entire Being Is Nourished By It. This Mystic Quality Of Color Should Likewise Find Expression In A Work Of Art.