I Would Like To Be Famous But

It Requires Courage To Make A Frontal Attack On Nature Through The Broad Planes And The Large Lines And It Is Cowardly To Do It By The Facets And Details. It Is A Battle.

Even In Front Of Nature One Must Compose.

Make A Drawing. Start It All Over Again, Trace It. Start It And Trace It Again.

Art Is Vice. One Does Not Wed It, One Rapes It.

One Reproduces Only That Which Is Striking; That Is To Say, The Necessary. Thus, One's Recollections And Inventions Are Liberated From The Tyranny Which Nature Exerts.