An area of
great discrepancy between the artist and the viewer, is that the
viewer often equates long hours spent in making a picture with high
quality, while the artist does not. This is not to be confused with
experience, which may be counted in hours, but usually years, or
lifetimes.
"There are terrible pictures that have taken time and pain to
make, intricate and difficult, results of grinding patience,
research, great amalgamations of material. They frighten the
sensitive student for the message they carry is of the pain and
boredom of their making." (38)
Robert Henri
"Good form does not show. The formal devices used are submerged
in the statement, in the effect. Precisely this submergence is one
of the prerequisites of the works
greatness." (39)
Rudolph Arnheim
38. Robert Henri, The Art Spirit, (Toronto, Canada, Fitzhenry &
Whiteside Lt.,1984), p.129
39. Rudolph Arnheim, Toward A Psychology of Art, (Berkeley and L.A.,
Cal., U. of California Press, 1966), p.p.9,10
