A Curve does not exist in its full power until contrasted with a straight line.
All is as beautiful as we think it.
Art appreciation, like love, cannot be done by proxy.
There is weakness in pretending to know more than you know or in stating less than you know.
The man who has honesty, integrity, the love of inquiry, the desire to see beyond, is ready to appreciate good art.
An artist must first of all respond to his subject, he must be filled with emotion toward that subject and then he must make his technique so sincere, so translucent that it may be forgotten, the value of the subject shining through it.