The Art Spirit

The big painter is one who has something to say. He thus does not paint men, landscape or furniture, but an idea.

Color is only beautiful when it means something. It is never good of itself. It must be the expression of some life value.

creation of a phrase special to the idea

Clerk mathematician. Creative mathematician.

Let yourself free to be what you will be.

It’s a result of a grip on the fundamentals of nature, the spirit of life, the constructive force, the secret of growth, a real understanding of the relative importance of things, order, balance. Any material will do.

Art is simply a result of expression during right feeling.

no time to be long enough on any one idea.

Self-acquaintance is a rare condition.

Art is, after all, only a trace— like a footprint which shows that one has walked bravely and in great happiness.