No thing is beautiful
“The real study of an art student is more of a development of that sensitive nature and appreciative imagination with which he was so fully […]
Month: November 2020
“Grata Non Grata”
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They made their language. You make yours.
Quotes from The Art Spirit, by Robert Henri: “The work of the art student is no light matter. Few have the courage and stamina to […]
Stones to step on or stones to avoid
“Every student should put down in some form or other his findings. All any man can hope to do is to add his fragment to […]
Beauty rests in the expression
“Artists are sometimes asked, “Why do you paint ugly and not beautiful things?” The questioner rarely hesitates in his judgment of what is beautiful and […]
All good drawing or painting is compositional
“Here is the model with light on his face, a white collar, a brown coat, black tie, black hair, gray background. I have named enough […]
The great departure
“The object of painting a picture is not to make a picture — however unreasonable this may sound. The picture, if a picture results, is […]
An artist has got to get acquainted with himself
“I know I have said a lot when I say, “You can do anything you want to do.” But I mean it. There is reason […]
Approved taste
“One of the great difficulties of an art student is to decide between his own natural impressions and what he thinks should be his impressions. […]
There are moments in a day, when we seem to see beyond the usual
“There are moments in our lives, there are moments in a day, when we seem to see beyond the usual — become clairvoyant. We reach […]
To apprehend beauty is to work for it
“The appreciation of art should not be considered as merely a pleasurable pastime. To apprehend beauty is to work for it. It is a mighty […]
Hope has been destroyed with the destruction of all pleasure in myself
“Since that moment it is all up with me. My last remaining shreds of happiness and self-confidence have been blown to the winds, I can […]
The impulse for beauty can force its way through every boundary
“Everything that is beautiful is orderly, and there can be no order unless things are in their right relation to each other. Of this right […]
To find the idea for which I can live and die
“To be clear in my mind what I am to do, not what I am to know, except in so far as a certain understanding […]