Abstraction does not deal with objects or with effects or with images. It is a purely expressive art, one that excludes all the styles of the past and is a plastic art with only one purpose; to inspire human nature towards beauty.

"The creating force and the expressiveness of painting reside materially in the colour and texture of pigment, in the possibilities of form invention and organization, and in the flat plane on which these elements are brought to play.

The artist is concerned solely with linking these absolute qualities directly to his wit, imagination and experience, without the go-between of a 'subject'. Working on a single plane as the instantaneously visualizing factor, he realizes his mind motives and physical sensations in a permanent and universal language of colour, texture and form organization. He covers the pure plane of expression that has so long been hidden by the glazings of nature imitation, anecdote, and the other popular subjects.

Accordingly, the artist's work is to be measured by the vitality, the invention, and the definiteness and conviction of purpose within its own medium."

Man Ray 1916. The Forum Exhibition of Modern American Painters