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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
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Robert Cozad Henri
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Pretend you are dancing or singing a picture.
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It seems to me that before a man tries to express anything to the world he must recognize in himself an individual, a new one, very distinct from others.
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Feel the dignity of a child. Do not feel superior to him, for you are not.
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Art when really understood is the province of every human being. It is simply a question of doing things, anything, well. It is not an outside, extra thing.
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The good thing about painting from memory is that so much is forgotten.
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Art tends toward balance, order, judgment of relative values, the laws of growth, the economy of living – very good things for anyone to be interested in.
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Lines are results, do not draw them for themselves.
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After all, the goal is not making art. It is living a life. Those who live their lives will leave the stuff that is really art.
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There is nothing in all the world more beautiful or significant of the laws of the universe than the nude human body.
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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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An artist must first of all respond to his subject, he must be filled with emotion toward that subject and then he must make his technique so sincere, so translucent that it may be forgotten, the value of the subject shining through it.
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Your painting is the marking of your progression into nature, a sensation of something you see way beyond the two pretty colors over there. Don't stop to paint the material, but push on to give the spirit.
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It is harder to see than it is to express. The whole value of art rests in the artist's ability to see well into what is before him.
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Be a warhorse for work and enjoy even the struggle against defeat.
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Students work in schools making life studies for years, win prizes for life studies and find in the end that they know practically nothing of the human figure. They have acquired the ability to copy.
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You can do anything you want to do. What is rare is this actual wanting to do a specific thing: wanting it so much that you are practically blind to all other things, that nothing else will satisfy you.
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The man who has honesty, integrity, the love of inquiry, the desire to see beyond, is ready to appreciate good art.
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Life is finding yourself. It is a spirit development.
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To be free, to be happy and to be fruitful, can only be attained through sacrifice of many common but overestimated things.
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