Balancing chaos
“It’s very spiritual because you’re suddenly seeing the coherence and the interconnectedness of everything — left to right, top to bottom, front to back. It’s […]
“It’s very spiritual because you’re suddenly seeing the coherence and the interconnectedness of everything — left to right, top to bottom, front to back. It’s […]
“Complete isolation — that is what the Outsider is driving at. He knows that, if he could only achieve it, there is a completely different […]
To me, one way of looking at this odd building is as some strange creature peering out over the makeshift wooden fence. It’s not threatening […]
Recently I’ve been thinking about John Szarkowski‘s idea of photographs as either windows or mirrors. It’s interesting to think of one’s own work and the […]
Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that […]
“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 […]
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 […]
“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 […]
“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 […]
“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 […]
“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 our lives, there are moments in a day, when we seem to see beyond the usual — become clairvoyant. We reach […]
“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 […]
“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 […]
“Appreciation of life is not easy. One says he must earn a living — but why? Why live? It seems as though a great many […]
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