'What finer luxury can there be than the materials, forms, colours, impressions and feelings that raw nature offers us. Organic, familiar, ever sentimental. The years go by and by, yet never anything diminished, nothing faded, age is just an alteration, always made new. The touch, the shape, the meaning, as intimate with this man as the one who came thousands before, eternally known, true beauty is everlasting. Now concept is asked to state provenance, but what is more authentic than a hand of shells or stone ? In this great pursuit of the highest art, the alchemists laugh, for it is already claimed, and already given.’