Through A Painting, We Can See The

The Impulse Of Nature, Fused Through The Personality Of The Artist By Laws Arising From The Particular Nature Of The Medium, Produces The Rhythm And The Personal Expression Of A Work. Then The Life Of The Composition Becomes A Spiritual Unity.

Through A Painting, We Can See The Whole World.

The Truly Monumental Can Only Come About By Means Of The Most Exact And Refined Relation Between Parts. Since Each Thing Carries Both A Meaning Of Its Own And An Associated Meaning In Relation To Something Else - Its Essential Value Is Relative. We Speak Of The Mood We Experience When Looking At A Landscape. This Mood Results From The Relation Of Certain Things Rather Than From Their Separate Actualities. This Is Because Objects Do Not In Themselves Possess The Total Effect They Give When Interrelated.

Creation Is Dominated By Three Absolutely Different Factors: First, Nature, Which Works Upon Us By Its Laws; Second, The Artist, Who Creates A Spiritual Contact With Nature And His Materials; Third, The Medium Of Expression Through Which The Artist Translates His Inner World.

To Experience Visually, And To Transform Our Visual Experience Into Plastic Terms, Requires The Faculty Of Empathy.