Create Like A God, Command

What Is Real Is Not The External Form, But The Essence Of Things... It Is Impossible For Anyone To Express Anything Essentially Real By Imitating Its Exterior Surface.

When You See A Fish You Don't Think Of Its Scales, Do You? You Think Of Its Speed, Its Floating, Flashing Body Seen Through The Water... If I Made Fins And Eyes And Scales, I Would Arrest Its Movement, Give A Pattern Or Shape Of Reality. I Want Just The Flash Of Its Spirit.

The Function Of Art Is To Make That Understood Which In The Form Of Argument Would Be Incomprehensible.

I Refused [to Study Under Rodin] Because Nothing Grows Under Large Trees.

Nothing Can Grow Under Big Trees.