A crack in everything
“The key to the creative type is that he is separated out of the common pool of shared meanings. There is something in his life […]
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That elusive wonder
“Wonder, and its expression in poetry and the arts, are among the most important things which seem to distinguish men from other animals, and intelligent […]
Joy of creative work
“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, […]
To find their way to art, which is their consolation
“Paradoxically, photographers must also face the threat that their vision may one day be denied them. Their capacity to find their way to art, which […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Play as a little child plays
“The man who believes that money is the thing is cheating himself. The artist teaches that the object of a man’s life should be to […]
It’s found anywhere, everywhere
“The sketch hunter has delightful days of drifting about among people, in and out of the city, going anywhere, everywhere, stopping as long as he […]
The eye trains itself to transmit many small delights
“I believe I am a stranger to humanity. I did not want just to paint people with their grimaces and gestures. What I really wanted […]
The voice of destiny
“Might your bitter pain not be the voice of destiny, might that voice not become sweet once you understand it?” – Hermann Hesse *** “Great […]
The Romantic
“That the life of man is but a dream, many a man has surmised heretofore; and I, too, am everywhere pursued by this feeling. When […]
The artist is not born to a life of pleasure. He must not live idle.
It is very important for the artist to gauge his position aright, to realize that he has a duty to his art and to himself, […]
The neurotic and the artist
“The neurotic fails through incessant vacillation. The artist succeeds in giving shape and form to the conflict and ejects truth and beauty.” – Otto Rank […]