" Art when fully understood is the province of every human being.
It is simply a question of doing things, anything, well.
It is not an outside, extra thing.
When the artist is alive in any person, whatever his kind of work may be, he becomes an inventive, searching, daring, self-expressing creature.
He becomes interesting to other people.
He disturbs, upsets, enlightens, and he opens ways for a better understanding.
Where those who are not artists are trying to close the book, he opens it, shows there are still more
pages possible.
The world would stagnate without him, and the world would be beautiful with him; for he is interesting to himself and he is interesting to others.
He does not have to be a painter or sculptor to be an artist.
He can work in any medium.
He simply has to find the gain in the work itself, not outside it."
