Buonanno a tutti! I hope you all had restful and joyful holidays. Here are two art quotes to start the new year off right:
"Art is not in pictures alone. Its place is in everything, as much in one thing as another. It is up to the community as a whole, in conduct, business, government and play."
- Robert Henri, The Art Spirit p. 134
"I find nature 'as is' a very wonderful romance and no man-made concoctions have ever beaten it either in romance or sweetness. Everything depends on the attitude of the artist toward his subject. It is the one great essential.
It is on this attitude of the artist toward his subject that the real quality of the picture, its significance, and the real nature and distinction of its technique depends. If your attitude is negligent, if you are not awake to the possibilities you will not see them. Nature does not reveal herself to the negligent.
As a matter of fact the most ordinary model is in reality a fascinating mysterious manifestation of life and is worthy of the greatest gifts anyone may have of appreciation and expression."
- Robert Henri, The Art Spirit p. 235
I often think of his sage advice. "Swing a bigger brush"
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