Through A Painting, We Can See The

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

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.

Just As Counterpoint And Harmony Follow Their Own Laws, And Differ In Rhythm And Movement, Both Formal Tensions And Color Tensions Have A Development Of Their Own In Accordance With The Inherent Laws From Which They Are Separately Derived. Both, However, Aim Toward The Realization Of The Same Image. And Both Deal With The Depth Problem.

It Is Not The Form That Dictates The Color, But The Color That Brings Out The Form.

The Creative Process Lies Not In Imitating, But In Paralleling Nature - Translating The Impulse Received From Nature Into The Medium Of Expression, Thus Vitalizing This Medium. The Picture Should Be Alive, The Statue Should Be Alive, And Every Work Of Art Should Be Alive.