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4/22/14

Being In Wonder Makes Art Inevitable

Art is simply a result of expression during right feeling.

It's a result of a grip on the fundamentals of nature,

the spirit of life, the constructive force, the secret of growth,

a real understanding of the relative importance of things, order, balance.

Any material will do. After all, the object is not to make art,

but to be in the wonderful state which makes art inevitable.

~ Robert Henri in The Art Spirit

Quote Title: Being In Wonder Makes Art Inevitable
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Photo ID: 170, FW04, 8

Cultivate Being Alone

The primary distinction of the artist

is that they must actively cultivate that state

which most people, necessarily, must avoid:

the state of being alone.

~ James Baldwin

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Photo ID: 265, FW04, 9

All Good Things Come By Grace And Art

All good things --- trout as well as eternal salvation ---

come by grace and grace comes by art

and art does not come easy.

~ Norman Maclean

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Photo ID: 171, FW04, 10

The Perspective Spirit And Relations Of Great Art

Here are worlds of experience

beyond the world of aggressive man,

beyond history, beyond science.

The mood and qualities of nature and

the relations of great art

are difficult to define; we can grasp them

only in the depths of our perceptive spirit.

~ Ansel Adams

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Photo ID: 266, FW04, 11

Secret Of The Creative Life

The secret of the creative life

is often to feel at ease with your own embarrassment.

We are paid to take risks, to look silly.

Some people, like racing car drivers

are paid to take risks in a more concrete way.

We are paid to take risks in an emotional way.

The film critic is like a medical examiner.

He gets the cadaver on the table, he opens it up,

and tries to figure out why it died.

The filmmaker is like the pregnant mother

who is simply trying nurture this thing.

You have to keep the medical examiner

out of the delivery room because he will get in there

and he will kill that baby.

~ Paul Schrader, interviewed by Terry Gross, Fresh Air (from Heron Dance)

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Photo ID: 172, FW04, 12

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)

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Photo ID: 267, FW04, 13

Making Good Art With Dash And Abandonment

… he wrote that his daily stint of painting

brought everything into balance and harmony.

…Harlan thought that a painting, to be good,

must be done with dash and abandonment,

even one which has meticulous detail.

If one niggles over it, the result is dull and lifeless.

…I have so little skill and handle my tools and materials

in a fumbling way, yet in painting, even in playing the violin,

I sometimes strike deep, and the technique seems as honest and handmade.

~ Wendell Berry, from Harlan Hubbard, Life and Work (from Heron Dance)

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Photo ID: 173, FW04, 14

Renewed Revelation Of Human Spirit Greatness

I realize again that one of the great functions of any art

is the constantly renewed revelation

of the possible greatness of the human spirit.

~ Henry Beston in Northern Farm

MUSE 2010

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Photo ID: 268, FW04, 15

Wonder, Imagination And Surprise

A world without wonder,

and a way of mind without wonder,

becomes a world without imagination,

and without imagination humanity is a poor

and stunted creature.

Religion, poetry, and all the arts

have their sources in this upwelling

of wonder and surprise.

Let us thank God that so much will forever

remain out of reach, safe from our inquiry,

inviolate forever from our touch.

~ Henry Beston in Northern Farm

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Photo ID: 174, FW04, 16

Soul Dust Washed Away By Art

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

~ Pablo Picasso

MUSE musicians #1 2005

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Photo ID: 269, FW04, 17

Humanity Expresses Itself Through Art

The artist must be the medium

through which humanity expresses itself.

~ Romare Bearden

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Photo ID: 175, FW04, 18

Delight And Wisdom

A poem should begin in delight and end in wisdom.

~ Robert Frost

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Photo ID: 270, FW04, 19

Mysterious The Most Beautiful Experience

The most beautiful thing we can experience

is the mysterious.

~ Albert Einstein

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Photo ID: 176, FW04, 20

The Beauty Of What We Love

Let the beauty of what we love be what we do.

There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.

~ Rumi

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Photo ID: 271, FW04, 21

A Life Of Creativity Beyond Ordinary

A life of creativity is a life of risk.

It is a life of going beyond your ordinary,

of embracing the odyssey, of leaving your familiar,

of trying to make a contribution….

~ Godrey Reggio in a Heron Dance interview

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Photo ID: 177, FW04, 22