"If there is a way toward human greatness, and if it be the kind that is independent of social approval, and if it be the kind that is achievable in our human life, then this is my way. The essential elements of this way of living would seem to be: to discard all pettiness; to hold in one's awareness the vast and ever-expanding capabilities of the human mind and the appreciation of all life; to live all one's emotional life—to live a happy day step by step in its fullness, to live a gloomy day step by step in its fullness; to rejoice in joy and to absorb sorrow; to give fully and to receive humanly. To live thusly is to feed the substance of one's paintings." Mark Baum, 1963