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• To paint is to know how to put nothing on canvas, and have it look like something when you stand back.

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  Looks, Painting, Canvas

  Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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• Be a warhorse for work and enjoy even the struggle against defeat.

  Robert Henri

  Struggle, Defeat, Enjoy

  Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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• You form a society: that limits you. Adopt a name, and you've limited yourself again; draw up a constitution and bylaws and you've made a groove, a rut, that hampers your growth. You think you can fix your course and move straight along it. But sometimes the important thing is to strike out sidewise.

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  Moving, Thinking, Names

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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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  Space, Tears, Age

  Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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• The more simply you see, the more simply you will render. People see too much, scatteringly.

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  Simply You, People, Too Much

  Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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• The most vital things in the look of a landscape endure only for a moment. Work should be done from memory; memory of that vital moment.

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  Memories, Looks, Done

  Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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• Self-acquainta nce is a rare condition.

  Robert Henri

  Self, Conditions

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• There has never been a painting that was more beautiful than nature. The model does not unfold herself to you, you must rise to her. She should be the inspiration for your painting. No man has ever over-appreciated a human being.

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  Beautiful, Nature, Inspiration

  Robert Henri (2007). “The Art Spirit”, p.242, Basic Books

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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.

  Robert Henri

  Artist, Messages, Spirit

  Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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• The reason for the survival of the award system is purely commercial.

  Robert Henri

  Awards, Survival, Rewards

  Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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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.

  Robert Henri

  Art, Moving, Giving

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• All is as beautiful as we think it.

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  Beautiful, Thinking

  Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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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

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  Artist, Soul, Doe

  Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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• Painting should never look as if it were done with difficulty, however difficult it may actually have been.

  Robert Henri

  Looks, Done, May

  Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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• Many receive a criticism and think it is fine; think they got their money's worth; think well of the teacher for it, and then go on with their work just the same as before. That is the reason much of the wisdom of Plato is still locked up in the pages of Plato.

  Robert Henri

  Teacher, Plato, Thinking

  Robert Henri (2007). “The Art Spirit”, p.165, Basic Books

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• Art is the giving by each man of his evidence to the world. Those who wish to give, love to give, discover the pleasure of giving. Those who give are tremendously strong.

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  Art, Strong, Men

  Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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• The good thing about painting from memory is that so much is forgotten.

  Robert Henri

  Memories, Painting, Forgotten

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• Your only hope of satisfying others is in satisfying yourself. I speak of a great satisfaction, not a commercial satisfaction.

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  Satisfaction, Speak, Satisfying

  Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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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.

  Robert Henri

  Art, Honesty, Integrity

  Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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• The pursuit of happiness is a great activity. One must be open and alive. It is the greatest feat man has to accomplish, and spirits must flow. There must be courage. There are no easy ruts to get into which lead to happiness.

  Robert Henri

  Happiness, Men, Pursuit

  "The Art Spirit".

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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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  Moving, Hunters, Stopping

  Robert Henri (2007). “The Art Spirit”, p.11, Hachette UK

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• Through art, mysterious bonds of understanding and of knowledge are established among men. They are the bonds of a great Brotherhood. Those who are of the Brotherhood know each other, and time and space cannot separate them.

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  Art, Men, Space

  Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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• Colors are beautiful when they are significant.

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  Beautiful, Color, Significant

  Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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• The artist should have a powerful will. He should be powerfully possessed by one idea

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  Powerful, Artist, Should Have

  Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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• All outward success, when it has value, is but the inevitable result of an inward success of full living, full play and enjoyment of one's faculties.

  Robert Henri

  Play, Inward, Results

  Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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