Blunder ahead with your personal view
I love these quotes I clipped from an old magazine. They’re from painter Robert Henri, from his book “The Art of Spirit”.
You can do anything you want to do. What is rare is this actual wanting to a cetain thing; wanting it so much that you are practically blind to all other things, that nothing else will satisfy you….I know I have said a lot when I say ‘You can do anything you want to do.’ But i mean it….Blunder ahead with your personal view….The real work of art is the result of a magnificent struggle
The part that’s particularly inspiring to me is the “Blundering Ahead”. It seems to describe the way my non-photographic art comes about. It reminds me of a word some friends were talking about: Bushwhacked. The word has some negative connotations these days, especially referring to a former President, but it was born of the “mountain men” of the American West, who went forward blindly through the thickest brush, whacking a trail as they went. So if you don’t take kindly to the “blundering ahead”, go ahead and bushwhack your way with your art.