“In its most limited sense, modern, art would seem to concern itself only with the technical innovations of the period.”
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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.
My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impression of nature.
Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before it can again become great.
I find in working always the disturbing intrusion of elements not a part of my most interested vision, and the inevitable obliteration and replacement of this vision by the work itself as it proceeds.
