The Art Spirit - Robert Henri  ## Metadata - Author: **Robert Henri** - Full Title: The Art Spirit - Category: #articles - Tags: #art - URL: https://readwise.io/reader/document_raw_content/31282637 ## Highlights - Not only so but he ardently believed in the close relation- ship of Art to Life—believed that Art is a matter in which not only professionals and students, but everyone is vitally concerned ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01grthgx6ec6ast0z65hfcps72)) - The subject is beauty—or happiness, and man’s approach to it is various. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01grtjhcn9bdaebkmx4m6h0j15)) - There are moments in our lives, there are mo- ments in a day, when we seem to see beyond the usual. Such are the moments of our greatest happiness. Such are the moments of our greatest wisdom. If one could but recall his vision by some sort of sign. It was in this hope that the arts were invented. Sign-posts on the way to what may be. Sign-posts toward greater knowledge. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01grtjhts99mhcrakbymfpskpq)) - Cherish your own emotions and never undervalue them. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01grtjyqe746c08v6ng62qaapg)) - 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. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01grtkbyhj3v9fhje0f9tkef32)) - He who has contemplated has met with himself, is in a state to see into the realities beyond the surfaces of his sub- ject. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01grtkdcsmfgpm5ydp0k8gds14)) - He moves through life as he finds it, not passing negligently the things he loves, but stopping to know them, and to note them down in the shorthand of his sketchbook, a box of oils with a few small panels, the fit of his pocket, or on his draw- ing pad. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01grtkg090jj25ayzjpbtrpe3p)) - Like any hunter he hits or misses. He is looking for what he loves ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01grtkgnbyzxbk7kb3nhpwtfnk)) - Don’t try to paint good land- scapes. Try to paint canvases that will show how interesting landscape looks to you—your pleasure in the thing. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01grtkjq32a8vra4m19ep0c6qq)) - In every human being there is the artist, and whatever his activity, he has an equal chance with any to express the result of his growth and his contact with life. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01grx5at4a5qtc4qvwjhp2pwe4)) - I think the real artists are too busy with just being and growing and acting (on canvas or however) like themselves to worry about the end. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01grx5af0k50wy5q04m6w8g7w7)) - The great moments of a day are sometimes such as hardly reach our consciousness, yet such moments may have made all the beauty and the success of the day. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01grx59shpe4yqz0njwgwx0yr6)) - Something of savagery and untamed life is indicated by the jewel in the ear. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01grx589kd5cnzds49j1k1ay45)) - A person who has never been afraid has no imagination. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01grx56x523n0xxp3kvv84z495)) - Do whatever you do intensely. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01grx562vc9vpz434sfq2mj3gf)) - A work of art is the trace of a magnificent struggle. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01grx54fg604sdj8cnz4b2gfsz))