Only those who have experienced the elation and despair which comes from the attempt to express their feelings about vision in oil paint will know th… - Roger Fry

Art is an expression and stimulus to the imaginative life rather than a copy of actual life. Art appreciates emotion in and for itself. The artist, is the most constantly observant of his surroundings and the least affected by their intrinsic aesthetic value. As he contemplates a particular field of vision the aesthetically chaotic and accidental conjunction of forms and colours begin to crystallize into a harmony.

A work of art is a work of art, and nothing else, personal considerations count for nothing.

My paintings do no more than give an idea of my wanderings in search of a guiding principle in art