"We must never think of forms, in their different states, as simply suspended in some remote, abstract zone, above the earth and above man. They mingle with life, whence they come; they translate into space certain movements of the mind. The life of forms gives definition to what may be termed 'psych"
"Form..., even before it takes possession of matter and space, already exists within them. The realization of this fact by the artist is what distinguishes him from the common man and, even more so, from the intellectual. For, the common man ... is no specialist in the invention and fabrication of wh"