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Robert Henri (/ˈhɛnraɪ/; June 24, 1865 – July 12, 1929) was an American painter and teacher. He was a leading figure of the Ashcan School of American realism and an organizer of the group known as "The Eight," a loose association of artists who protested the restrictive exhibition practices of the powerful, conservative National Academy of Design.

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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 of what they are doing, their work creates a stir in the world.

Artist, Believe, Consideration, Profound, World

Concentrate on a single feature - as, build all toward one eye - make all lines lead toward that eye.

Build, Concentrate, Concentration, Eye, Lines

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.

Artist, Idea, Ideas, Life, Men

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.

Struggle, Today, Use, Yesterday

The object isn't to make art, it's to be in that wonderful state which makes art inevitable.

Art, Creativity, Inspiring, Object, Wonderful

We make our discoveries while in the state [of high functioning] because then we are clear-sighted.

Clear, Discoveries, Discovery, Functioning, Make, States

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.

Inevitable, Inward, Play, Results, Success

The real artist's work is a surprise to himself.

Artist, Real, Surprise, Work

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.

Art, Good, Judgment, Order, Relative Value, Things

The artist should be intoxicated with the idea of the thing he wants to express.

Artist, Express, Ideas, Thing, Want

An artist's job is to surprise himself. Use all means possible.

Inspiring, Job, Jobs, Mean, Possible, Use

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 with them will act suggestively and so presently evoke a flight into the higher state.

Expression, Flight, May, Mode, Painting, State

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

Beach, Ocean, Potent, Power, Things, Thinking

Art cannot be separated from life. It is the expression of the greatest need of which life is capable, and we value art not because of the skilled product, but because of its revelation of a life's experience.

Art, Expression, Inspiring, Life, Separated

There are forms that can only be seen when you are near a painting, others only appear when you are far away.

Appear, Away, Far Away, Form, Painting

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 more than ordinary moment of existence. In such moments activity is inevitable, and whether this activity is with brush, pen, chisel, or tongue, its result is but a by-product of the state, a trace, the footprint of the state.

Art, Object, Ordinary, Result, State, Tongue

There is no art without contemplation.

Art, Contemplation, Contemplating

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

Defeat, Enjoy, Struggle, Warhorse, 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 your mind to be alone in many ways. We like sympathy and we like to be in company. It is easier than going it alone. But alone one gets acquainted with himself, grows up and on, not stopping with the crowd. It costs to do this. If you succeed somewhat you may have to pay for it as well as enjoy it all your life.

Art, Growing Up, Like, Succeed, Sympathy, Thinking

Pretend you are dancing or singing a picture. A worker or painter should enjoy his work, else the observer will not enjoy it.

Dancing, Painter, Pretend, Should, Singing

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