to the spirit and are constantly renewing their energies so that there can be a greater understanding of life. (Concerning Agate World, 1945)

The only thing worse than moving is staying where you are.

Artists learn only from other artists and from art.
No young artist can grow unless he emulates someone bigger than himself.
A painting has to exude more than an effect.

The Pacific Ocean, that great block which for so long has kept the oriental as a slant-eyed mystery, is breaking down. Since the last world war we can now perhaps see the orientals as human beings, as ourselves, with a cultural background as great as that of European countries. That it was not tapped long ago was due no doubt to the fact that those who migrated to the Pacific Coast areas came without a religious background which allowed for any appreciation of the oriental and his great cultural recources. Who could doubt that the center of their truth, the Christ, would have thought so? The challenge of man today in my part of the world is to accept the weaning process away from the limitations of his past with its accompanying nationalism and regionalism.

What can we hope out of the confusion of modern life that this so called modern age is the beginning of a new world or at best an age of transition to a better one. That the material benefits are great cannot be denied nor that the discoveries are far reaching and manifold with promise of a better world. Man seems to have discovered everything to make a brave new world but has and is neglecting himself. If we are to escape from the imminent dangers it is to a renewal of spiritual powers or rather that man shall awake from the depths of materialism with which he has surrounded himself. In his belief in materialism he can but continue along old lines and these outworn modes of thought will sink him deeper and deeper in troubles for the very essence of the materialistic is competition, mistrust and unbelief. Man’s true world is his thought and his thought is reflected in art as well as everything else he does.