Let us choose to reproduce beauty rather than the sordid, if only to elevate the standards of beauty. If we seek an audience to our way of expression, let us make the things we have to say worth while. When we have a choice, let us build, not tear down. If we are endowed with the vision to encompass beauty, let us be grateful, but not selfish about it. To live and work only to please one's self, using art as a means of display for uncontrolled temperment and undiciplined license, for devorcing oneself from the normal and ethical standards of life, to my mind is wrong.
Art belongs to life, and essentially to the common, everyday man.
Art is essentally giving. Ability of high order is rare. The successful may well rejoice that they few, among the many, have been given the eyes that see, the hand to set down, the perception to grasp, and the heart to understand the big truth. What we take in we can strive to give back in greater perfection. It seems to me that this would not be possible without patience, humility, and respect for life and mankind.