To Create A Work Of Art Is

Those [things] That We Encounter For The First Time Immediately Have A Spiritual Effect Upon Us. A Child, For Whom Every Object Is New, Experiences The World In This Way: It Sees Light, Is Attracted By It, Wants To Grasp It, Burns Its Finger In The Process, And Thus Learns Fear And Respect For The Flame.

The Artist Must Have Something To Say, For Mastery Over Form Is Not His Goal But Rather The Adapting Of Form To Its Inner Meaning.

Drawing Instruction Is A Training Towards Perception, Exact Observation And Exact Presentation Not Of The Outward Appearances Of An Object, But Of Its Constructive Elements, Its Lawful Forces-tensions, Which Can Be Discovered In Given Objects And Of The Logical Structures Of Same-education Toward Clear Observation And Clear Rendering Of The Contexts, Whereby Surface Phenomena Are An Introductory Step Towards The Three-dimensional.

Efforts To Revive The Art Principles Of The Past At Best Produce Works Of Art That Resemble A Stillborn Child.

Color Is The Keyboard, The Eyes Are The Harmonies, The Soul Is The Piano With Many Strings. The Artist Is The Hand That Plays, Touching One Key Or Another, To Cause Vibrations In The Soul.