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Robert Henri Inspirational Quotes (91)

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Art is certainly not a pursuit for anyone who wants to make money.
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After all, the goal is not making art. It is living a life. Those who live their lives will leave the stuff that is really art.
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There is only one reason for art in America, and that is that the people of America learn the means of expressing themselves in their own time, and their own land.
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It seems to me that before a man tries to express anything to the world he must recognize in himself an individual, a new one, very distinct from others.
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A weak background is a deadly thing.
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Keep a bad drawing until by study you have found out why it is bad.
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Don't worry about the rejections. Everybody that's good has gone through it. Don't let it matter if your works are not accepted at once. The better or more personal you are the less likely they are of acceptance.
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The sketch hunter moves through life as he finds it, not passing negligently the things he loves, but stopping to know them, and to note them down in the shorthand of his sketchbook.
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Art when really understood is the province of every human being. It is simply a question of doing things, anything, well. It is not an outside, extra thing.
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I paint for the sole purpose of magnifying the privilege of being alive.
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Do whatever you do intensely.
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When the artist is alive in any person, whatever his kind of work may be, he becomes an inventive, searching, daring, self-expressing creature.
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By my teaching I hope to inspire you to personal activity and to present your vision.
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Do whatever you do intensely. The artist is the man who leaves the crowd and goes pioneering. With him there is an idea which is his life.
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Self-acquainta nce is a rare condition.
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Artists must be men of wit, consciously or unconsciously philosophers read, study and think a great deal of life.
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It's a wrong idea that a master is a finished person. Masters are very faulty they haven't learned everything and they know it.
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Your painting is the marking of your progression into nature, a sensation of something you see way beyond the two pretty colors over there. Don't stop to paint the material, but push on to give the spirit.
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Know what the old masters did. Know how they composed their pictures, but do not fall into the conventions they established. These conventions were right for them, and they are wonderful. They made their language. You make yours. All the past can help you.
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A picture should be the expression of the will of the painter.
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The artist should have a powerful will. He should be powerfully possessed by one idea
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Let every student enter the school with this advice. No matter how good the school is, his education is in his own hands. All education must be self education.
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There are pictures that manifest education and there are pictures that manifest love.
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Strokes carry a message whether you will it or not. The stroke is just like the artist at the time he makes it. All the certainties, all the uncertainties, all the bigness of his spirit and the littlenesses are in it.
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