As A Picture Painted In Yellow Always

In Their Pursuit Of The Same Supreme End, Matisse And Picasso Stand Side By Side, Matisse Representing Color And Picasso Form.

The Deeper The Blue Becomes, The More Strongly It Calls Man Towards The Infinite, Awakening In Him A Desire For The Pure And, Finally, For The Supernatural The Brighter It Becomes, The More It Loses Its Sound, Until It Turns Into Silent Stillness And Becomes White.

The Nightmare Of Materialism, Which Has Turned The Life Of The Universe Into An Evil, Useless Game, Is Not Yet Past; It Holds The Awakening Soul Still In Its Grip.

Of All The Arts, Abstract Painting Is The Most Difficult. It Demands That You Know How To Draw Well, That You Have A Heightened Sensitivity For Composition And For Colors, And That You Be A True Poet. This Last Is Essential.

Today Is The Great Day Of One Of The Revelations Of This World. The Interrelationships Of These Individual Realms Were Illumined As By A Flash Of Lightning; They Burst Unexpected, Frightening, And Joyous Out Of The Darkness. Never Were They So Strongly Tied Together And Never So Sharply Divided.