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It Takes Intelligence And Training, Self-discipline And Fine-sensibility, To Gain Renewed Life Through Leisure Occupation. America Now Suffers Spiritual Poverty, And Art Must Become More Fully American Life Before Her Leisure Can Become Culture.

Being Inexhaustible, Life And Nature Are A Constant Stimulus For A Creative Mind.

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

The Impressionistic Method Leads Into A Complete Splitting And Dissolution Of All Areas Involved In The Composition, And Color Is Used To Create An Overall Effect Of Light. The Color Is, Through Such A Shading Down From The Highest Light In The Deepest Shadows, Sacrified An Degraded To A (black-and-white) Function. This Leads To The Destructions Of The Color As Color.

My Aim In Painting Is To Create Pulsating, Luminous, And Open Surfaces That Emanate A Mystic Light, In Accordance With My Deepest Insight Into The Experience Of Life And Nature.