Painters Must Speak Through Paint,

The Creative Process Lies Not In Imitating, But In Paralleling Nature - Translating The Impulse Received From Nature Into The Medium Of Expression, Thus Vitalizing This Medium. The Picture Should Be Alive, The Statue Should Be Alive, And Every Work Of Art Should Be Alive.

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.

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).

Nature's Purpose In Relation To The Visual Arts Is To Provide Stimulus Not Imitation. From Its Ceaseless Urge To Create Springs All Life - All Movement And Rhythm - Time And Light, Color And Mood - In Short, All Reality In Form And Thought.

Painters Must Speak Through Paint, Not Through Words.