Exhibitions in New York

"THE THINGS that one has seen all one's life are the things that are down deepest in one. Mark Twain said 'Unconscious observation is the only important observation'. A great many artists have painted out of their own country. One could make a list of them, but nevertheless I think that our job is to stay here and paint; to go abroad and learn-to come back here and create. Go abroad not necessarily to draw from a model, but go abroad to see the glories of the world that through the centuries man has made, but come back here and help to continue to create American ideas and ideals. To help here at this critical time not only with one's product but with one's personality, for the future of this country depends on the ideas that are now created, and ideas are created first by art. For the creative imagination must rule the mind. The mind must not limit the creative imagination. The affair of the painter is to exercise and develop his creative imagination. The country depends on him. He must develop and express his ideas, his visual ideas in terms of design. He must see-see visions, for where there is no vision the people perish."