Not wanting the surface issues and horrors of this World to erase the higher purposes of our lives and the Truth and Beauty that surrounds us, I seek and am drawn to the words and thoughts of Artists and Mystics and Philosophers who add to the optimism that buoys me as it has buoyed others! To wit: "In these times there is a powerful demarcation between the surface and the deep currents of human development. Events and upheavals, which seem more profound than they really are, are happening on the surface. But there is another and deeper change in progress. It is of long, steady persistent growth, very little affected and not at all disturbed by surface conditions. The artist of today should be alive to this deeper evolution on which all growth depends, has depended and will depend. On the surface there is the battle of institutions, the illustration of events, the strife between peoples. On the surface there is propaganda and there is the effort to force opinions. The deeper current carries no propaganda. The shock of the surface upheaval does not deflect it from its course. It is in search of fundamental principle; that basicprinciple of all, which in degree as it is apprehended points the way to beauty and order, and to the law of nature." Robert Henri
Posted on: Sun, 14 Jul 2013 14:11:50 +0000
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