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"Like to do your work as much as a dog likes to gnaw a bone and go at it with equal interest and exclusion of everything else."



"Education as we have it does as much to thwart the recognition of individual experience as lack of education limits it."


"I am not interested in art as a means of making a living, but I am interested in art as a means of living a life ."


"Don’t be ashamed to keep your bad stuff. After all you did it. It is your history and worth studying."

All attributed to the great Mr. Henri in his book The Art Spirit.
(10 points to Gryffindor if you know how Henri is actually pronounced.)