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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 Of His Overflowing Soul. Because His Soul Is Rich, He Cares Comparatively Little About The Superficial Necessities Of The Material World; He Sublimates The Pressure Of Material Affairs In An Artistic Experience.

Our Entire Being Is Nourished By Color.

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

Depth, In A Pictorial, Plastic Sense, Is Not Created By The Arrangement Of Objects One After Another Toward A Vanishing Point, In The Sense Of The Renaissance Perspective, But On The Contrary (and In Absolute Denial Of This Doctrine) By The Creation Of Forces In The Sense Of Push And Pull . Nor Is Depth Created By Tonal Gradation (another Doctrine Of The Academician Which, At Its Culmination, Degraded The Use Of Color To A Mere Function Of Expressing Dark And Light).

The Impulse Of Nature, Fused Through The Personality Of The Artist By Laws Arising From The Particular Nature Of The Medium, Produces The Rhythm And The Personal Expression Of A Work. Then The Life Of The Composition Becomes A Spiritual Unity.