Through A Painting, We Can See The

A Work Of Art Is Finished, From The Point Of View Of The Artist, When Feeling And Perception Have Resulted In A Spiritual Synthesis.

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

Color Is A Plastic Means Of Creating Intervals... Color Harmonics Produced By Special Relationships, Or Tensions. We Differentiate Now Between Formal Tensions And Color Tensions, Just As We Differentiate In Music Between Counterpoint And Harmony.

A Work Based Only On A Line Concept Is Scarcely More Than A Illustration; It Fails To Achieve Pictorial Structure. Pictorial Structure Is Based On A Plane Concept. The Line Originates In The Meeting Of Two Planes ... We Can Lose Ourselves In A Multitude Of Lines, If Through Them We Lose Our Senses For The Planes.

A Work Of Art Is A World In Itself Reflecting Senses And Emotions Of The Artist's World. Just As A Flower, By Virtue Of Its Existence As A Complete Organism Is Both Ornamental And Self-sufficient As To Color, Form, And Texture, So Art, Because Of Its Singular Existence Is More Than Mere Ornament.