I have taught my students not to apply rules or mechanical ways of seeing.
In visual perception a color is almost never seen as it really is – as it physically is. This fact makes color the most relative medium in art.
When we were in the seminary we got a stipend direct from the government and for that stipend we had an obligation to stick to our teaching job for five years.
It is not so for art in appreciation because art is concerned with human behavior. And science is concerned with the behavior of metal or energy. It depends on what the fashion is. Now today it’s energy. It’s the same soul behind it. The same soul, you see.
It was my family that wanted me to be a teacher. That was safe, you see. To be a painter was terrible.