“Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist, and this inner life will result in his personal vision of the world.”
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My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impression of nature.
There will be, I think, an attempt to grasp again the surprise and accidents of nature and a more intimate and sympathetic study of its moods, together with a renewed wonder and humility on the part of such as are still capable of these basic reactions.
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.
Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before it can again become great.