The Artist Must Train Not

The Artist Must Be Blind To Distinction Between 'recognized' Or 'unrecognized' Conventions Of Form, Deaf To The Transitory Teaching And Demands Of His Particular Age.

The World Is Full Of Resonances. It Constitutes A Cosmos Of Things Exerting A Spiritual Action. The Dead Matter Is A Living Spirit.

An Empty Canvas, Apparently Really Empty, That Says Nothing And Is Without Significance – Almost Dull, In Fact – In Reality, Is Crammed With Thousands Of Undertone Tensions And Full Of Expectancy. Slightly Apprehensive Lest It Should Be Outraged.

The Sound Of Colors Is So Definite That It Would Be Hard To Find Anyone Who Would Express Bright Yellow With Bass Notes Or Dark Lake With Treble.

Those [things] That We Encounter For The First Time Immediately Have A Spiritual Effect Upon Us. A Child, For Whom Every Object Is New, Experiences The World In This Way: It Sees Light, Is Attracted By It, Wants To Grasp It, Burns Its Finger In The Process, And Thus Learns Fear And Respect For The Flame.