To Me, Art Is The Glorification Of

A Work Of Art Is A World In Itself Reflecting Senses And Emotions Of The Artist's World.

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.

The Child Is Really An Artist, And The Artist Should Be Like A Child, But He Should Not Stay A Child. He Must Become An Artist. That Means He Cannot Permit Himself To Become Sentimental Or Something Like That. He Must Know What He Is Doing

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.

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