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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
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No work of Art is really ever finished. They only stop at good places.
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Do whatever you do intensely. The artist is the man who leaves the crowd and goes pioneering. With him there is an idea which is his life.
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A picture should be the expression of the will of the painter.
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The true artist regards his work as a means of talking with men [and women], of saying his say to himself and to others. It is not a question of pay.
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All real works of art look as though they were done in joy.
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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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Pretend you are dancing or singing a picture. A worker or painter should enjoy his work, else the observer will not enjoy it.
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The reason for the survival of the award system is purely commercial.
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A weak background is a deadly thing.
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Lines are results, do not draw them for themselves.
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The artist should have a powerful will. He should be powerfully possessed by one idea
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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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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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Keep a bad drawing until by study you have found out why it is bad.
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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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If you think of a school drawing while you work, your drawing will look like one.
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Count on big lines to express your ideas.
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Pretend you are dancing or singing a picture.
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Good composition is like a suspension bridge each line adds strength and takes none away... Making lines run into each other is not composition. There must be motive for the connection. Get the art of controlling the observer – that is composition.
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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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