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"The object of painting a picture is not to make a picture--however unreasonable this may sound. The picture, if
a picture results, is a by-product and may be useful, valuable, interesting as a sign of what has past. 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.... [The] results, however crude, become dear to the artist who made them because they are records of
states of being which he has enjoyed and which he would regain. They are likewise interesting to others because they
are to some extent readable and reveal the possibilities of greater existence."
- Robert Henri -
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