“Ray Nugent grasped the essential idea that my work was important in recognizing the uses of color as a means to my lifetime goal: to deliver poetry to all people. My concept in the use of color was to show the elements and beauty of poetry, and Ray not only saw that but understood and appreciated it. As he said, you wisely used whatever technology was available, but in the end color was always the means. Ray Nugent has the rare ability to capture the essence of a collected body of work and appraise its true value.”