Pearls from artists* # 727

Postcard recently found at my apartment

*an ongoing series of quotations – mostly from artists, to artists – that offers wisdom, inspiration, and advice for the sometimes lonely road we are on

Don’t worry about the rejections. Everybody that’s good has gone through it. Don’t let it matter if your works are not “accepted” at once. The better or more personal you are the less likely they are of acceptance. Just remember that the object of painting pictures is not simply to get them in exhibitions. It is all very fine to get your pictures hung, but you are painting for yourself, not for the jury. I had many years of rejections.

Robert Henri quoted in The Art Life: On Creativity and Career by Stuart Horodner

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