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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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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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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 paint for the sole purpose of magnifying the privilege of being alive.
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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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Strokes carry a message whether you will it or not. The stroke is just like the artist at the time he makes it. All the certainties, all the uncertainties, all the bigness of his spirit and the littlenesses are in it.
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Do not worry about your originality. You could not get rid of it even if you wanted to.
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Work always as if you were a master, expect from yourself a masterpiece.
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Through art mysterious bonds of understanding and of knowledge are established among men.
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Count on big lines to express your ideas.
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Today must not be a souvenir of yesterday, and so the struggle is everlasting. Who am I today? What do I see today? How shall I use what I know, and how shall I avoid being victim of what I know? Life is not repetition.
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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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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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You pass people on the street, some are for you, some are not.
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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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A picture should be the expression of the will of the painter.
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Good composition is like a suspension bridge - each line adds strength and takes none away.
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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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Know what the old masters did. Know how they composed their pictures, but do not fall into the conventions they established. These conventions were right for them, and they are wonderful. They made their language. You make yours. All the past can help you.
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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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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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