no quibbling or uncertain man
Posted on May 18th, 2008
by 
Warren
Warren
AN ART student must be a master from the beginning; that is, he must be master of such as he has. By being now master of such as he has there is promise that he will be master in the future.
A work of art which inspires us comes from no quibbling or uncertain man. It is the manifest of a very positive nature in great enjoyment, and at the very moment the work was done.
It is not enough to have thought great things before doing the work. The brush stroke at the moment of contact carries inevitably the exact state of being of the artist at that exact moment
into the work, and there it is, to be seen and read by those who can read such signs, and to
be read later by the artist himself, with perhaps some surprise, as a revelation of himself.
For an artist to be interesting to us he must have been interesting to himself. He must have
been capable of intense feeling, and capable of profound contemplation.
He who has contemplated has met with himself, is in a state to see into the realities beyond
the surfaces of his subject. Nature reveals to him, and, seeing and feelingintensely, he paints, and whether he wills it or not each brush stroke is an exact record of such as he was at the exact moment the stroke was made.
Robert Henri
"The Art Spirit"
Now i put ink stokes on human skin, marking people for their lifetimes. My canvas now
talks back to me , has expectations and bleeds. A balance to my solitary form of creating that
i have worked on for most of my life. No clear path , just a life of creativity, wonder and awe.
good day to all of my brothers and sisters out there. persevere!
A work of art which inspires us comes from no quibbling or uncertain man. It is the manifest of a very positive nature in great enjoyment, and at the very moment the work was done.
It is not enough to have thought great things before doing the work. The brush stroke at the moment of contact carries inevitably the exact state of being of the artist at that exact moment
into the work, and there it is, to be seen and read by those who can read such signs, and to
be read later by the artist himself, with perhaps some surprise, as a revelation of himself.
For an artist to be interesting to us he must have been interesting to himself. He must have
been capable of intense feeling, and capable of profound contemplation.
He who has contemplated has met with himself, is in a state to see into the realities beyond
the surfaces of his subject. Nature reveals to him, and, seeing and feelingintensely, he paints, and whether he wills it or not each brush stroke is an exact record of such as he was at the exact moment the stroke was made.
Robert Henri
"The Art Spirit"
Now i put ink stokes on human skin, marking people for their lifetimes. My canvas now
talks back to me , has expectations and bleeds. A balance to my solitary form of creating that
i have worked on for most of my life. No clear path , just a life of creativity, wonder and awe.
good day to all of my brothers and sisters out there. persevere!
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beginning
May 2008
true words. art is a life that must be lived, not just practiced.
I think of Bach, of Beethoven, and their full commitment to their craft.
a life of wonder, discovery, creative joy.
what lives!