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There is no art without contemplation.

There is no art without contemplation.
– Robert Henri

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  3. The object isn’t to make art, it’s to be in that wonderful state which makes art inevitable. – Robert Henri
  4. All real works of art look as though they were done in joy. – Robert Henri
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  7. Action isn’t my forte. I’m an expert on contemplation and mild regret. – Robert Sheckley
  8. Art for art’s sake, with no purpose, for any purpose perverts art. But art achieves a purpose which is not its own. (1804) – Benjamin Constant
  9. I’m an artist. I’m an artist and I’m going to make art! Art arty art art. – Andy Beirsack
  10. a spiritual life without prayer is like the gospel without Christ. – Henri JM Nouwen
  11. Do whatever you do intensely. – Robert Henri
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  14. A Curve does not exist in its full power until contrasted with a straight line. – Robert Henri
  15. Pretend you are dancing or singing a picture. A worker or painter should enjoy his work, else the observer will not enjoy it. – Robert Henri
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  17. We are troubled by having two selves, the inner and the outer. The outer one is rather dull and lets great things go by. – Robert Henri
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  23. What we need is more sense of the wonder of life and less of this business of making a picture. – Robert Henri
  24. There is no shadow without the sun.No suffering without divinity.No fear without love.No despair without desire.No hopelessness without faith. – Brownell Landrum
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  27. Think while walking, walk while thinking, and let writing be but the light pause, as the body on a walk rests in contemplation of wide open spaces. – Frdric Gros
  28. Soulful love, is poetry in motion. A contemplation of beauty from the deep arises and the mere struggle to express the rapture of the soul. – Angie karan
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  30. We have fallen on hard times of the spirit, with many of the people more concerned with fear of evil than contemplation of the good. – Clifford D Simak
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