The Question Of The Value

One Of The Weaknesses Of Much Abstract Painting Is The Attempt To Substitute The Inventions Of The Intellect For A Pristine Imaginative Conception. The Inner Life Of A Human Being Is A Vast And Varied Realm And Does Not Concern Itself Alone With Stimulating Arrangements Of Color, Form And Design. The Term 'life' As Used In Art Is Something Not To Be Held In Contempt, For It Applies All Of Its Existence, And The Province Of Art Is To React To It And Not To Shun It. Painting Will Have To Deal More Fully And Less Obliquely With Life And Nature's Phenomena Before It Can Again Be Great.

I Guess I'm Not Very Human. All I Really Want To Do Is Paint Light On The Side Of A House.

The Trend In Some Of The Contemporary Movements In Art, But By No Means All, Seems To Deny This Ideal And To Me Appears To Lead To A Purely Decorative Conception Of Painting.

Yes, Linseed Oil. I Used To Use Poppy Oil, But I Have Heard That Poppy Oil Is Given To Cracking Pigment Too, So I Use It No Longer.

If I Had The Energy, I Would Have Done It All Over The County.