Sea Quote by Robert Henri

“Why do we love the sea? It is because it has some potent power to make us think things we like to think.”

Robert Henri

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It is the common defect of modern art study. Too many students do not know why they draw.

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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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Keep a bad drawing until by study you have found out why it is bad.

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Self-education only produces expressions of self.

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Genius is not a possession of the limited few, but exists in some degree in everyone. Where there is natural growth, a full and…

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Your painting is the marking of your progression into nature, a sensation of something you see way beyond the two pretty colors over there.…

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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…

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There are pictures that manifest education and there are pictures that manifest love.

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I am interested in the size of your intention. It is better to overstate the important than to understate it.

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“We will be happy if we can get around to the idea that art is not an outside and extra thing; that it is…

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“It beats all the things that wealth can give and everything else in the world to say the things one believes, to put them…

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“A GREAT PAINTER will know a great deal about how he did it, but still he will say, “How did I do it?” The…

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For successful education there must always be a certain freshness in the knowledge dealt with. It must be either new in itself or invested with some novelty of application to the new world of new times. Knowledge does not keep any better than fish. You may be dealing with knowledge of the old species, with some old truth; but somehow…

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Eternal Trinity... mystery deep as the sea, You could give me no greater gift than the gift of Yourself. For You are a fire…

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Fly-fishing for wild trout on quiet waters must be one of the toughest and craziest ways to catch fish ever invented by man, as…

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Whenever we touch nature we get clean. People who have got dirty through too much civilization take a walk in the woods, or a…

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I saw above a sea of hills A solitary planet shine, And there was no one, near or far, to keep the world from…

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I love the sea, but I avoid any sort of seaside resort that has skyscrapers or seaside entertainments.

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“Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs; Being purg'd, a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes; Being vex'd, a sea nourish'd with…

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One of the unique things is that whether we were out at sea or in the middle of the water tank, a lot of…

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Our world is drowning in a sea of self-centeredness. You can make yourself quite unique right away by leaving this ocean of selfishness and…

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The improved American highway system isolated the American-in-transit. On his speedway he had no contact with the towns which he by-passed. If he stopped for food or gas, he was served no local fare or local fuel, but had one of Howard Johnson's nationally branded ice cream flavors, and so many gallons of Exxon. This vast ocean of superhighways was…

Daniel J. Boorstin

Another success is the post-office, with its educating energy augmented by cheapness and guarded by a certain religious sentimentin mankind; so that the power of a wafer or a drop of wax or gluten to guard a letter, as it flies over sea over land and comes to its address as if a battalion of artillery brought it, I look…

Ralph Waldo Emerson