Experience

"Only contemplated experience becomes real experience, " which is the reverse of "Let's go places and do things." Spinoza

" Art is something absolute, something positive, which gives power just as food gives power.  While creative science is mental food, art is the satisfaction of the soul."  Hans Hofmann

" In symphonic painting, color is the real building medium.  When color is richest, form is fullest." Cezanne

" The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know." Arthur Koestler