“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. When the artist is alive in any person, whatever his kind of work may be, he becomes an inventive, searching, daring, self-expressing creature.”
– Robert Henri, The Art Spirit
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“Quality is a characteristic of thought and statement that is recognized by a non-thinking or intuitive process. Because definitions are a product of rigid reasoning, quality can never be rigidly defined. But everyone knows what it is.”
– Robert Pirsig, On Quality: an Inquiry Into Excellence
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Art and quality are two words for the same thing that cannot be defined.
We could say the energy of creation.
Others may call it flow.
Aliveness?
Euphoria?
Giddiness?
Joy?
Satisfaction?
What is the word that resonates with you?
It doesn’t have to be the same as me, but we could perhaps agree on the same sensation.
We know it when we are doing it
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