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Page 80 - Leaves of Grass indeed (I cannot too often reiterate) has mainly been the outcropping of my own emotional and other personal nature — an attempt, from first to last, to put a Person, a human being (myself, in the latter half of the Nineteenth Century, in America,) freely, fully and truly on record.
Page 80 - No one will get at my verses who insists upon viewing them as a literary performance, or attempt at such performance, or as aiming mainly toward art or aestheticism.
Page 134 - It seems to me that before a man tries to express anything to the world he must recognize in himself an \individual, a new one, very distinct from others.
Page 281 - Feel the dignity of a child. Do not feel superior to him, for you are not.
Page 159 - The object, which is back of every true work of art, is the attainment of a state of being, a state of high functioning, a more than ordinary moment of existence.
Page 5 - Art when really understood is the province of every human being. It is simply a question of doing things, anything well. It is not an outside extra thing. . . . He does not have to be a painter or sculptor to be an artist. He can work in any medium. He simply has to find the gain in the work itself, not outside it. ROBERT HENRI Weaving, hit's the prettiest work I ever done. It's asettin...
Page 81 - All original art," says Taine, anyhow, "is self-regulated, and no original art can be regulated from without; it carries its own counterpoise, and does not receive it from elsewhere — lives on its own blood" — a solace to my frequent bruises and sulky vanity.
Page 145 - Always we would try to tie down the great to our little nationalism ; whereas every great artist is a man who has freed himself from his family, his nation, his race. Every man who has shown the world the way to beauty, to true culture, has been a rebel, a
Page 61 - Art is the inevitable consequence of growth and is the manifestation of the principles of its origin. The work of art is a result ; the output of a progress in development and stands as a record and marks the degree of development.
Page 37 - 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.