Robert Henri sez…
March 25, 2008
It is harder to see than it is to express. The whole value of art rests in the artist’s ability to see well into what is before him….If the eyes of a Rembrandt are upon the model she will rise in response and Rembrandt will draw what he sees, and it will be beautiful. Rembrandt was a man of great understanding. He had the rare power of seeing deep into the significance of things….A genius is one who can see. Others can often draw remarkably well. There kind of drawing, however, is not very difficult. They can change about. They can make their sight fit the easiest way for their drawing. As their seeing is not particular it does not matter. With the seer it is different. Nothing will do but the most precise statement. He must not only bend technique to his will, but he must invent technique that will especially fit his need. He is not one who floats affably in his culture. His the blazer of the road for what he has to bring. Those who get their technique first, expecting sight to come to them later, get a technique of a very ready- made order
