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Do whatever you do intensely.

Robert Henri

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Robert Henri
Age: 64 †
Born: 1865
Born: June 24
Died: 1929
Died: July 12
Artist
Painter
Cincinnati
Ohio
Robert Earle Henri
Robert Henry Cozad
Robert Earl Henri
Henri
Robert Cozad Henri
Intensely
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Whatever

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Art cannot be separated from life. It is the expression of the greatest need of which life is capable, and we value art not because of the skilled product, but because of its revelation of a life's experience.
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The artist should have a powerful will. He should be powerfully possessed by one idea
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It's a wrong idea that a master is a finished person. Masters are very faulty they haven't learned everything and they know it.
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I paint for the sole purpose of magnifying the privilege of being alive.
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Keep a bad drawing until by study you have found out why it is bad.
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There are pictures that manifest education and there are pictures that manifest love.
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You will never draw the sense of a thing unless you are feeling it at the time you work.
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The sketch hunter moves through life as he finds it, not passing negligently the things he loves, but stopping to know them, and to note them down in the shorthand of his sketchbook.
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Genius is not a possession of the limited few, but exists in some degree in everyone. Where there is natural growth, a full and free play of faculties, genius will manifest itself.
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Why do we love the sea? It is because it has some potent power to make us think things we like to think.
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The pursuit of happiness is a great activity. One must be open and alive. It is the greatest feat man has to accomplish, and spirits must flow. There must be courage. There are no easy ruts to get into which lead to happiness. A man must become interesting to himself and must become actually expressive before he can be happy.
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Painting should never look as if it were done with difficulty, however difficult it may actually have been.
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If you think of a school drawing while you work, your drawing will look like one.
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Life is finding yourself. It is a spirit development.
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All manifestations of art are but landmarks in the progress of the human spirit toward a thing but as yet sensed and far from being possessed.
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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.
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I am interested in art as a means of living a life not as a means of making a living.
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