thought for the week

~ jama

“There are moments in our lives, there are moments 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 this 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.”

                                              Robert Henri ( The Art Spirit)
                                                                                                 
    
                                

              

2 thoughts on “thought for the week”

  1. The Art Spirit
    Oh, I just love this book, and had to get up from my desk and find it again. I have an essay started about my time learning to draw and I pulled quotes from The Art Spirit as I went. My favorite quote is:
    “We care for and treasure the traces of states of greater living, fuller functioning, because we want to live also, and they inspire to living. That is the whole value of a ‘work of art.’ The traces are inevitable. The living is the thing.”
    Sara Lewis Holmes

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