Quotes from Arthur Dove

We cannot express the light in nature because we have not the sun. We can only express the light we have in ourselves.

I look at nature, I see myself. Paintings are mirrors, so is nature.

It is the form the idea takes in the imagination rather than the form as it exists outside.

I should like to take the wind and water and sand as a motif and work with them, but it has to be simplified in most cases to colour and force lines, just as music has done with sound.