“At the core of my personality I am aware of a powerful attraction to the colors and shapes of the visual world, an attraction that is ecstatic, unfailing whenever I am outdoors or in the presence of natural objects… What comes to me through nature, moreover, also comes to me through art. The arts shake me, thrill me, enlarge me, make me more truly alive, and fill me with a sense of being in touch with noble, pure, good things.”