"Color,
form, and texture, bathed in many different qualities
of light, are the basic tools by which nature identifies
itself. Nature uses these tools creatively to communicate
symbolic information about its own reality. The artist,
probing color, light, form, and texture to express their
best potential, thus becomes one of nature's "high
priests," bearing witness, as does nature, to the
same ultimate truths. If he is successful, he reassuringly
demonstrates that man himself, like nature, is not separate
from but is very much a part of the creative forces so
beautifully manifest in the universe around us."
-
Al Need (1911-1986)
