Perfectly ordered disorder designed with a helter-skelter magnificence. |
The artist himself may not think he is religious, but if he is sincere his sincerity in itself is religion. |
The spirit must be felt so intensely that it has power to call others in passing, for it must pass, not stop in the pictures. |
There are no words, no paints to express all this, only a beautiful dumbness in the soul, life speaking to life. |
There is a need to go deeper, to let myself go completely, to enter into the surroundings in the real fellowship of oneness, to lift above the outer shell, out into the depth and wideness where God is the recognized centre and everything is in time with everything, and the key-note is God. |
There is something bigger than fact: the underlying spirit, all it stands for, the mood, the vastness, the wildness. |
Trees love to toss and sway; they make such happy noises. |
Twenty can't be expected to tolerate sixty in all things, and sixty gets bored stiff with twenty's eternal love affairs. |
You always feel when you look it straight in the eye that you could have put more into it, could have let yourself go and dug harder. |
You must be absolutely honest and true in the depicting of a totem for meaning is attached to every line. You must be most particular about detail and proportion. |
You will have to experiment and try things out for yourself and you will not be sure of what you are doing. That's all right, you are feeling your way into the thing. |