Scott McCloudArt, as I see it, is any human activity which doesn’t grow out of either of our species’ two basic instincts: survival and reproduction.
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Robert Henri said: “Art, as I see it, is any human activity which doesn’t grow out of either of our species’ two basic instincts: survival and reproduction.” Robert Henri was an American painter and printmaker. He initially studied at New York University and then traveled to Paris, where he spent the next 20 years studying and teaching.
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