Everything Starts From A Dot.

An Empty Canvas, Apparently Really Empty, That Says Nothing And Is Without Significance – Almost Dull, In Fact – In Reality, Is Crammed With Thousands Of Undertone Tensions And Full Of Expectancy. Slightly Apprehensive Lest It Should Be Outraged.

Drawing Instruction Is A Training Towards Perception, Exact Observation And Exact Presentation Not Of The Outward Appearances Of An Object, But Of Its Constructive Elements, Its Lawful Forces-tensions, Which Can Be Discovered In Given Objects And Of The Logical Structures Of Same-education Toward Clear Observation And Clear Rendering Of The Contexts, Whereby Surface Phenomena Are An Introductory Step Towards The Three-dimensional.

There Is, However, In Art Another Kind Of External Similarity Which Is Founded On A Fundamental Truth. When There Is A Similarity Of Inner Tendency In The Whole Moral And Spiritual Atmosphere, A Similarity Of Ideals, At First Closely Pursued But Later Lost To Sight, A Similarity In The Inner Feeling Of Any One Period To That Of Another, The Logical Result Will Be A Revival Of The External Forms Which Served To Express Those Inner Feelings In An Earlier Age.

… Lend Your Ears To Music, Open Your Eyes To Painting, And … Stop Thinking! Just Ask Yourself Whether The Work Has Enabled You To “walk About” Into A Hitherto Unknown World. If The Answer Is Yes, What More Do You Want?

A Painter, Who Finds No Satisfaction In Mere Representation, However Artistic, In His Longing To Express His Inner Life, Cannot But Envy The Ease With Which Music, The Most Non-material Of The Arts Today, Achieves This End. He Naturally Seeks To Apply The Methods Of Music To His Own Art.