Every art expression is rooted fundamentally in the personality and temperament of the artist..

A thing in itself never expresses anything. It is the relation between things that gives meaning to them and that formulates a thought. A thought fun….

When the impulses which stir us to profound emotion are integrated with the medium of expression, every interview of the soul may become art. This is….

Creation is dominated by three absolutely different factors: First, nature, which works upon us by its laws; second, the artist, who creates a spirit….

A thought functions only as a fragmentary part in the formulation of an idea..

Art and science create a balance to material life and enlarge the world of living experience. Art leads to a more profound concept of life, because a….

Art leads to a more profound concept of life, because art itself is a profound expression of feeling. The artist is born, and art is the expression o….

The difference between the arts arises because of the difference in the nature of the mediums of expression and the emphasis induced by the nature of….

It takes intelligence and training, self-discipline and fine-sensibility, to gain renewed life through leisure occupation. America now suffers spirit….

The creative process lies not in imitating, but in paralleling nature - translating the impulse received from nature into the medium of expression, t….

And so artistic creation is the metamorphosis of the external physical aspects of a thing into a self-sustaining spiritual reality ..

Colors must fit together as pieces in a puzzle or cogs in a wheel..

The art of pictorial creation is so complicated - it is so astronomical in its possibilities of relation and combination that it would take an act of….

It is not the form that dictates the color, but the color that brings out the form..

Painters must speak through paint, not through words..

To me, art is the glorification of the human spirit..

A work of art is a world in itself reflecting senses and emotions of the artist's world..

A work based only on a line concept is scarcely more than a illustration; it fails to achieve pictorial structure. Pictorial structure is based on a ….

The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak..

The whole world, as we experience it visually, comes to us through the mystic realm of color..

It makes no difference whether a work is naturalistic or abstract; every visual expression follows the same fundamental laws.