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

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.

It Is Not The Form That Dictates The Color, But The Color That Brings Out The Form.

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).

An Idea Can Only Be Materialized With The Help Of A Medium Of Expression, The Inherent Qualities Of Which Must Be Surely Sensed And Understood In Order To Become The Carrier Of An Idea