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

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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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Walt Whitman Wanted Himself

Nobody wanted Walt Whitman,

but Walt Whitman wanted himself,

and it is well for us that he did.

~ Robert Henri, from The Art Spirit quoted in Heron Dance

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