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The people who are unprejudiced, but who. . . feel it is so hopeless there is no use trying. . . probably do just as much damage to the emotional atmosphere in which we are facing the problem as the fanatical Negrophobes.

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It is to aid in making the arts operative rather than only positively or negatively pleasurable. . . it is to paint a record, in so far as I am increasingly capable, of man's deepst capacities. . . I seek to paint of how form manifests its subtlest quality named 'idea.

Art, Deepst, Ideas, Men, Seek, Subtlest
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It takes waking prayer and working prayer and going to bed in prayer each day with increasing dedication. I must be the best person that I am able to be when I am painting. Tonight the wind is howling and the barrels are full of sky water.

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The painting cannot be laid aside even for a day; for it takes constant work to keep 'flowing,' but above that it takes concentration, which in our language is consecration.

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I paint to evoke a changing language of symbols, a language with which to remark upon the qualities of our mysterious capacities which direct us towards the ultimate reality.

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It may not always be obvious at first, but I think that everyone can make a valuable contribution if only they put their minds to it.

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I love and in a way need, a private secret place. It's a kind of deep obsession, but I also love to need and be with friends and the two things often need to be together. . . it's a painful conflict that will never be smoothly resolved.

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