The Good Thing About Painting

In Certain Books—some Way In The First Few Paragraphs You Know That You Have Met A Brother.

Realize That A Drawing Is Not A Copy. It Is A Construction In Very Different Materials. A Drawing Is An Invention.

I Am Always Sorry For The Puritan, For He Guided His Life Against Desire And Against Nature. He Found What He Thought Was Comfort, For He Believed The Spirit's Safety Was In Negation, But He Has Never Given The World One Minute's Joy Or Produced One Symbol Of The Beautiful Order Of Nature. He Sought Peace In Bondage And His Spirit Became A Prisoner.

No Work Of Art Is Really Ever Finished. They Only Stop At Good Places.

A Curve Does Not Exist In Its Full Power Until Contrasted With A Straight Line.