"Ability to correlate lines, shapes, tones, is the rare and necessary quality of the artist.
All good art is composition."
- Robert Henri. The Art Spirit (p. 154). Kindle Edition.
"Don’t worry about your originality. You could not get rid of it even if you wanted to. It will stick to you and show you up for better or worse in spite of all you or anyone else can do."
- Robert Henri. The Art Spirit (p. 76). Kindle Edition.
"For an artist to be interesting to us he must have been interesting to himself."
- Robert Henri. The Art Spirit (p. 13). Kindle Edition.
"There are moments in our lives, there are moments in a day, when we seem to see beyond the usual. Such are the moments of our greatest happiness. Such are the moments of our greatest wisdom. If one could but recall his vision by some sort of sign. It was in this hope that the arts were invented. Sign-posts on the way to what may be. Sign-posts toward greater knowledge."
- Robert Henri. The Art Spirit (p. 9). Kindle Edition.
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