To Me, Art Is The Glorification Of

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.

What Goes On In Abstract Art Is The Proclaiming Of Aesthetic Principles... It Is In Our Own Time That We Have Become Aware Of Pure Aesthetic Considerations. Art Never Can Be Imitation.

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 Ability To Simplify Means To Eliminate The Unnecessary So That The Necessary May Speak.

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.