What art will be if man ever finds fundamental values as lasting structures for living freed from wars he will have to find those values in the realm of the spirit and not in more knowledge of the moon, nay even the sun. He can go on splitting atoms but unless he claims his birthright which is of the spirit he is doomed. Without the healing powers of the spirit he remains sick with antagonisms, fears and hatreds which degrade him to a station below that of animals.

Man today is challenged to extend his mental and spiritual horizons. Geographical barriers have given way before the light of science, invention and psychology. The great inventions that have demolished the former sense of special difference must await a new man who will use them positively. But this new will have seen a great light which burns away the barriers of prejudice and religious antagonism. The art of the future cannot germinate in antagonism and national rivalry but will spring forth with a renewed growth if man in general will grow to the stature of universal citizenship.

If art is the mirror of man he must have in this day cracked the mirror before he gazed upon himself. There are certainly many evidences that he is sick of his reflection.

The prophet is never abstract. I have no use for impersonality. There has to be something behind the retina - associations in the mind before art can start.

The artist has to exaggerate. He has to de-form in order to make form move.

I want to paint what nobody else sees. The ignored and forgotten things. The unregarded.

First of all I want the desire to create; for therein lies the will to continue to live in a new way - to add to your house more vistas of being. For I believe that back of all great achievement is a richness of being. [...] What I am seeking in you, and endeavoring to help as much as I can, is the furthering towards the realm or identity of being; so that we maybe better equipped to know of what a real unity is composed - not uniformity, but unity of related parts.