I Can't Understand How Anyone Is Able

The Plastic Artist May Or May Not Be Concerned With Presenting A Superficial Appearance Of Reality, But He Is Always Concerned With The Presentation - If Not The Representation - Of The Plastic Values Of Reality.

In Nature, Light Creates The Color. In The Picture, Color Creates The Light.

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.

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.

The Impressionistic Method Leads Into A Complete Splitting And Dissolution Of All Areas Involved In The Composition, And Color Is Used To Create An Overall Effect Of Light. The Color Is, Through Such A Shading Down From The Highest Light In The Deepest Shadows, Sacrified An Degraded To A (black-and-white) Function. This Leads To The Destructions Of The Color As Color.