Genius Is Gifted With A Vitality Which

You Must Break All The Rules Of Painting, But You Must Also Convince Me You've Had A Reason To Do So.

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.

Being Inexhaustible, Life And Nature Are A Constant Stimulus For A Creative Mind.

The Truly Monumental Can Only Come About By Means Of The Most Exact And Refined Relation Between Parts. Since Each Thing Carries Both A Meaning Of Its Own And An Associated Meaning In Relation To Something Else - Its Essential Value Is Relative. We Speak Of The Mood We Experience When Looking At A Landscape. This Mood Results From The Relation Of Certain Things Rather Than From Their Separate Actualities. This Is Because Objects Do Not In Themselves Possess The Total Effect They Give When Interrelated.

The Width Of A Line May Present The Idea Of Infinity. An Epigram May Contain A World. In The Same Way, A Small Picture Format May Be Much More Living, Much More Leavening, Stirring, Awakening, Than Square Yards Of Wall Space.