Houses, housetops, like human beings have wonderful character. The lives of housetops. The wear of the seasons. The country is beautiful, young, growing things. The majesty of trees. The backs of tenement houses are living documents.

Robert Henri
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  1. Don't worry about your originality. You couldn't get rid of it even if you wanted to. It will stick with you and show up for better or worse in spite of all you or anyone else can do.

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

  3. Do whatever you do intensely.

  4. All real works of art look as though they were done in joy.

  5. Art is, after all, only a trace — like a footprint which shows that one has walked bravely and in great happiness.

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