As A Teacher I Approach My Students

Since Light Is Best Expressed Through Differences In Color Quality, Color Should Not Be Handled As A Tonal Gradation, To Produce The Effect Of Light.

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.

To Worship The Product And Ignore Its Development Leads To Dilettantism And Reaction.

And So Artistic Creation Is The Metamorphosis Of The External Physical Aspects Of A Thing Into A Self-sustaining Spiritual Reality .

I Can't Understand How Anyone Is Able To Paint Without Optimism. Despite The General Pessimistic Attitude In The World Today, I Am Nothing But An Optimist.