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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
Robert Earle Henri
Robert Henry Cozad
Robert Earl Henri
Henri
Robert Cozad Henri
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Everybody
Rejections
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The true artist regards his work as a means of talking with men [and women], of saying his say to himself and to others. It is not a question of pay.
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By my teaching I hope to inspire you to personal activity and to present your vision.
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Today must not be a souvenir of yesterday, and so the struggle is everlasting. Who am I today? What do I see today? How shall I use what I know, and how shall I avoid being victim of what I know? Life is not repetition.
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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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Beauty is an intangible thing can not be fixed on the surface, and the wear and tear of old age on the body cannot defeat it. Nor will a pretty face make it, for pretty faces are often dull and empty, and beauty is never dull and it fills all spaces.
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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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Painting should never look as if it were done with difficulty, however difficult it may actually have been.
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A mountain seen in the haze of distance must nevertheless look a solid heavy mountain.
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You will never draw the sense of a thing unless you are feeling it at the time you work.
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Do not expect pictures to say the expected some of the best will have surprises for you, which will, at first, shock you.
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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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Completion does not depend on material representation. The work is done when that special thing has been said.
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Good composition is like a suspension bridge - each line adds strength and takes none away.
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The more simply you see, the more simply you will render. People see too much, scatteringly.
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Develop your visual memory. Draw everything you have drawn from the model from memory as well.
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All manifestations of art are but landmarks in the progress of the human spirit toward a thing but as yet sensed and far from being possessed.
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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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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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