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

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
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Life
Interested
Making
Living
Means
Art

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Do not let the fact that things are not made for you, that conditions are not as they should be stop you. Go on anyway. Everything depends on those who go on anyway.
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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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Knowledge of anatomy is a tool like good brushes.
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The big painter is one who has something to say. He thus does not paint men, landscape or furniture, but an idea.
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I have heard it very often said that an artist does not need intelligence, that his is the province of the soul
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Beauty is an intangible thing can not be fixed on the surface, and the wear and tear of old age on the body cannot defeat it. Nor will a pretty face make it, for pretty faces are often dull and empty, and beauty is never dull and it fills all spaces.
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I paint for the sole purpose of magnifying the privilege of being alive.
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The model is not to be copied, but to be realized.
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Your style is the way you talk in paint.
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Artists must be men of wit, consciously or unconsciously philosophers read, study and think a great deal of life.
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Art is certainly not a pursuit for anyone who wants to make money.
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Do not expect pictures to say the expected some of the best will have surprises for you, which will, at first, shock 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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Completion does not depend on material representation. The work is done when that special thing has been said.
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The world will see many fashions of art and most of the world will follow the fashions and make none. These cults - these 'movements' - are absolutely necessary, or at any rate their causes are, for somewhere in their centres are the ones who bear the Idea, the ones who have questioned, 'But what do I think?' and 'How shall I say it best?
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A mountain seen in the haze of distance must nevertheless look a solid heavy mountain.
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Be a warhorse for work and enjoy even the struggle against defeat.
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Keep a bad drawing until by study you have found out why it is bad.
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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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Let every student enter the school with this advice. No matter how good the school is, his education is in his own hands. All education must be self education.
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