A painter
should be interested
not in the incident
but in the essence
. . .
Reveal the spirit
you have about the thing,
not the materials
you are going to paint.
Reality does not exist
in material things.
Rather paint
the flying spirit of the bird
than its feathers.
- Robert Henri, 1865-1929
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