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I have heard it very often said that an artist does not need intelligence, that his is the province of the soul

Robert Henri

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Robert Henri
Age: 64 †
Born: 1865
Born: June 24
Died: 1929
Died: July 12
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Cincinnati
Ohio
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To be free, to be happy and to be fruitful, can only be attained through sacrifice of many common but overestimated things.
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The artist should be intoxicated with the idea of the thing he wants to express.
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Art tends toward balance, order, judgment of relative values, the laws of growth, the economy of living – very good things for anyone to be interested in.
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Completion does not depend on material representation. The work is done when that special thing has been said.
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The man who has honesty, integrity, the love of inquiry, the desire to see beyond, is ready to appreciate good art.
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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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Each man must take the material that he finds at hand, see that in it there are the big truths of life, the fundamentally big forces, and then express in his art whatever is the cause of his pleasure.
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If you work from memory, you are most likely to put in your real feeling.
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The fun of living is that we have to make ourselves, after all.
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Life is finding yourself. It is a spirit development.
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The good thing about painting from memory is that so much is forgotten.
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It is the common defect of modern art study. Too many students do not know why they draw.
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Be a warhorse for work and enjoy even the struggle against defeat.
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Do not worry about your originality. You could not get rid of it even if you wanted to.
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