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Work Quotes by Robert Henri
- You will never draw the sense of a thing unless you are feeling it at the time you work.
- You can do anything you want to do. What is rare is this actual wanting to do a specific thing: wanting it so much that…
- The real artist's work is a surprise to himself.
- If a certain activity, such as painting, becomes the habitual mode of expression, it may follow that taking up the painting materials and beginning work…
- The work of the art student is no light matter. Few have the courage and stamina to think it through. You have to make up…
- The object, which is back of every true work of art, is the attainment of a state of being, a state of high functioning, a…
- When the motives of artists are profound, when they are at their work as a result of deep consideration, when they believe in the importance…
- 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…
- 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…
- No work of Art is really ever finished. They only stop at good places.
- When the artist is alive in any person, whatever his kind of work may be, he becomes an inventive, searching, daring, self-expressing creature.
- Students work in schools making life studies for years, win prizes for life studies and find in the end that they know practically nothing of…
- If you work from memory, you are most likely to put in your real feeling.
- If you think of a school drawing while you work, your drawing will look like one.
- Pretend you are dancing or singing a picture. A worker or painter should enjoy his work, else the observer will not enjoy it.
- When the artist is alive in any person, whatever his kind of work may be, he becomes an inventive, searching, daring, self-expressive creature. He becomes…
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- All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind. — Aristotle
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- Luck? I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me… — Lucille Ball
- Men talk as if victory were something fortunate. Work is victory. — Ralph Waldo Emerson