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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
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A mountain seen in the haze of distance must nevertheless look a solid heavy mountain.
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Do whatever you do intensely.
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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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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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Drawing is not following a line on the model, it is drawing your sense of the thing.
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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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Art is certainly not a pursuit for anyone who wants to make money.
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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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Work always as if you were a master, expect from yourself a masterpiece.
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The pernicious influence of the prize and medal giving in art is so great that it should be stopped. History proves that juries in art have been generally wrong.
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In a tree there is a spirit of life, a spirit of growth and a spirit of holding its head up.
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Get the few main lines and see what lines they call out.
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Art need not be intended. It comes inevitably as the tree from the root, the branch from the trunk, the blossom from the twig. None of these forget the present in looking backward or forward. They are occupied wholly with the fulfillment of their own existence.
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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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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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A picture should be the expression of the will of the painter.
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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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I paint for the sole purpose of magnifying the privilege of being alive.
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The artist should have a powerful will. He should be powerfully possessed by one idea
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Life is finding yourself. It is a spirit development.
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