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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.
Robert Henri
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Robert Henri
Age: 64 †
Born: 1865
Born: June 24
Died: 1929
Died: July 12
Artist
Painter
Cincinnati
Ohio
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The artist should have a powerful will. He should be powerfully possessed by one idea
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Each sensation is precious, protect it, cherish it, keep it. Never give it away. You must develop that balance which allows all of the world to come in to you, and only that which you have expressed in your art to move back out again into the world.
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The fun of living is that we have to make ourselves, after all.
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I am interested in art as a means of living a life not as a means of making a living.
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Do not let the fact that things are not made for you, that conditions are not as they should be stop you. Go on anyway. Everything depends on those who go on anyway.
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The good thing about painting from memory is that so much is forgotten.
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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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Your style is the way you talk in paint.
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Work always as if you were a master, expect from yourself a masterpiece.
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The reason for the survival of the award system is purely commercial.
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Drawing is not following a line on the model, it is drawing your sense of the thing.
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