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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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Good
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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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Pretend you are dancing or singing a picture.
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An artist must first of all respond to his subject, he must be filled with emotion toward that subject and then he must make his technique so sincere, so translucent that it may be forgotten, the value of the subject shining through it.
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Through art mysterious bonds of understanding and of knowledge are established among men.
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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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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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I am interested in art as a means of living a life not as a means of making a living.
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I paint for the sole purpose of magnifying the privilege of being alive.
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The more simply you see, the more simply you will render. People see too much, scatteringly.
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The artist should have a powerful will. He should be powerfully possessed by one idea
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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 big painter is one who has something to say. He thus does not paint men, landscape or furniture, but an idea.
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All real works of art look as though they were done in joy.
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The artist should be intoxicated with the idea of the thing he wants to express.
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