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Art need not be intended. it comes inevitably as the tree from the root, the branch from the trunk, the blossom from the twig. none of these forget the present in looking backward or forward. they are occupied wholly with the fulfillment of their own existence.
-Robert Henri
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Art Need Not Be Intended. It Comes

Robert Henri
Art need not be intended. it comes inevitably as the tree from the root, the branch from the trunk, the blossom from the twig. none of these forget the present in looking backward or forward. they are occupied wholly with the fulfillment of their own existence.
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The seed of a tree has the nature of a branch or twig or bud. it is a part of the tree, but if separated and set in the earth to be better nourished, the embryo or young tree contained in it takes root and grows into a new tree.
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We ask the leaf, "are you complete in yourself?" and the leaf answers, "no, my life is in the branches." we ask the branch, and the branch answers, "no my life is in the root." we ask the root, and it answers, "no my life is in the trunk and the branches and the leaves. keep the branches stripped of leaves, and i shall die," so it is with the great tree of being. nothing is completely and merely individual.
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I know now that he who hopes to be universal in his art must plant in his own soil. great art is like a tree, which grows in a particular place and has a trunk, leaves, blossoms, boughs, fruit, and roots of its own. the more native art is, the more it belongs to the entire world, because taste is rooted in nature. when art is true, it is one with nature. this is the secret of primitive art and also of the art of the mastersmichelangelo, czanne, seurat, and renoir. the secret of my best work is that it is mexican.
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The bud disappears when the blossom breaks through, and we might say that the former is refuted by the latter; in the same way when the fruit comes, the blossom may be explained to be a false form of the plant's existence, for the fruit appears as its true nature in place of the blossom.
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Do you know that even when you look at a tree and say, `that is an oak tree', or `that is a banyan tree', the naming of the tree, which is botanical knowledge, has so conditioned your mind that the word comes between you and actually seeing the tree? to come in contact with the tree you have to put your hand on it and the word will not help you to touch it.
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