Every Art Expression Is Rooted Fundamentally In

Colors Must Fit Together As Pieces In A Puzzle Or Cogs In A Wheel.

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.

The Product Of Movement And Counter-movement Is Tension. When Tension Working Strength Is Expressed, It Endows The Work Of Art With The Living Effect Of Coordinated, Though Opposing, Forces.

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).

We Are Connected With Our Own Age If We Recognize Ourselves In Relation To Outside Events; And We Have Grasped Its Spirit When We Influence The Future.