of constant flux or at least that is how it seems to me.

Always in movement - that is how the Greek philosophers saw the essential being of the soul - so, I have tried to tear out just a few scraps of that beauty which makes up the miracles of the Cosmos and which is in the multi-facetedness of life.

Some critics have criticized me for being what they called an Orientalist and for using Oriental models for my work. But they were wrong. Because when I was struggling in Japan and China with Sumi-ink and the brush, trying to understand the calligraphy of the Far-East, I became aware that I would never be anything other than the Westerner that I am. But what did develop there was what I call the calligraphic impulse that has opened out new horizons for my work. Now I could paint the turmoil and tumult of the great cities, the intertwining of the lights and the streams of people caught up in the mesh of their net.

What can we really ever do with anything we have if we have no consciousness of it and no relations to it; if that subtle but powerful essence with binds all things together and makes them all children of itself is to find no place in our hearts and in our minds!

All things are easily explained if persons will take the trouble to see. Just as the new music of today needs a new ear, the new art needs a new eye. I can’t teach most people to paint, but I can help them to see what I have seen. The writing style is not an abstraction. Each line has a purpose and a meaning important to the whole. And here I must emphasize it is the whole which is important. Contemporary painting is a total conception no part of which is valid without the other.

When man leaves his native place the forms which he has created follow him. They go with him and their style becomes modified in the new environment. These forms appear in the pictures, in turn being displaced and establishing themselves in the fresh surroundings.

The moving white lines symbolize the light, the unifying thought which flows across the compartments of life, and these give strength