Mastery By Force Of Need

Anyhow, all work that is worth while

has got to be memory work.

Even with a model before you in the quiet light of a studio

there must come a time when you have

what you want to know from the model,

when the model had better be sitting behind you than before,

and unless such a time as this does come,

it is not likely the work will get below the surface.

It would be easy to divide artists into two classes:

those who grow so much within themselves

as to master technique by the force of their need,

and those who are mastered by technique and become stylists.

~ Robert Henri, from The Art Spirit (from Heron Dance)

Quote Title: Mastery By Force Of Need
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