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When a community starts afresh in matters of art, it takes on a big job. Not an outside job, but an inside job, and one that can be most enjoyable and profitable.
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Do not let the fact that things are not made for you, that conditions are not as they should be, stop you. Go on anyway. Everything depends on those who go on anyway.
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No one can lead him. Many can give advice, but the greatest artist in the world cannot point his course for he is a new man. Just what he should know, just how he should proceed can only be guessed at.
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Art in the community has a subtle, unconscious refining influence. It practically means that the presence of good art will unconsciously refine a community and that poor art will do it incalculable harm. True art strikes deeper than the surface.
– Robert Henri, The Art Spirit -
The artist teaches that the object of a man’s life should be to play as a little child plays. Only it is the play of maturity—the play of one’s mental faculties. Therefore, we have art and invention.
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What is the relation of the artist to the community? What good does man’s art do? There are those in the community who regard the artist as a mere entertainer come with cap and bells to amuse and perform graces before a paying public. The true artist regards his work as a means of talking with men, of saying his say to himself and to others. It is not a question of pay. It is not a question of willing acceptance on the part of the public. If he is welcomed and paid it is very good, but whether or no he must say his say.
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The artist is teaching the world his idea of life.
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He paints like a man going over the top of a hill, singing.
– Robert Henri, The Art Spirit
