A Weak Background Is A

To Paint Is To Know How To Put Nothing On Canvas, And Have It Look Like Something When You Stand Back.

Art Tends Toward Balance, Order, Judgment Of Relative Values, The Laws Of Growth, The Economy Of Living – Very Good Things For Anyone To Be Interested In.

If You Do Not Act On A Suggestion At First, You Grow Dull To Its Message.

I Am Always Sorry For The Puritan, For He Guided His Life Against Desire And Against Nature. He Found What He Thought Was Comfort, For He Believed The Spirit's Safety Was In Negation, But He Has Never Given The World One Minute's Joy Or Produced One Symbol Of The Beautiful Order Of Nature. He Sought Peace In Bondage And His Spirit Became A Prisoner.

Lines Are Results, Do Not Draw Them For Themselves.