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"The stuff from which art is made, feeling, intuition, and imagination, is a part of all people, everywhere. The physical fact opens the door. The tendency in Eastern culture is toward the spiritual side. They try to penetrate to the inner meaning of things, while Western culture seems to be based on content and forms derived by intellectual analysis. The differnce between these two types of art is only apparent. Here is my hand against the light casting a shadow on the table. This hand is West and exists in space, while the shadow is shape, sometimes it has depth and it is diffused with mystery. The aesthetic impulle has these two aspects, but they relate to the same reality, they are opposite sides of the same coin. Throughout these many years of painting I have practiced starting my work from reality, stating the facts before me. Then I paint without the object for a certain length of time, combining reality and imagination. I start drawing right on the canvas, working veryx carefully at the beginning, and develop the drawing until it fully suggests the subject. This enables me to carry on with the painting without the object in front of me."
American Paintings and Sculpture
The Newark Museum, Newark, N. J.  Y.K.
Oct. 31, 1944 to Jan. 31, 1945