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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
Interested
Making
Living
Means
Art
Mean
Life

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By my teaching I hope to inspire you to personal activity and to present your vision.
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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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Each sensation is precious, protect it, cherish it, keep it. Never give it away. You must develop that balance which allows all of the world to come in to you, and only that which you have expressed in your art to move back out again into the world.
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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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The model is not to be copied, but to be realized.
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There is only one reason for art in America, and that is that the people of America learn the means of expressing themselves in their own time, and their own land.
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Painting should never look as if it were done with difficulty, however difficult it may actually have been.
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Good composition is like a suspension bridge - each line adds strength and takes none away.
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Develop your visual memory. Draw everything you have drawn from the model from memory as well.
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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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Don't worry about the rejections. Everybody that's good has gone through it. Don't let it matter if your works are not accepted at once. The better or more personal you are the less likely they are of acceptance.
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If you think of a school drawing while you work, your drawing will look like one.
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Work always as if you were a master, expect from yourself a masterpiece.
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The good thing about painting from memory is that so much is forgotten.
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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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Completion does not depend on material representation. The work is done when that special thing has been said.
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If a certain activity, such as painting, becomes the habitual mode of expression, it may follow that taking up the painting materials and beginning work with them will act suggestively and so presently evoke a flight into the higher state.
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Pretend you are dancing or singing a picture.
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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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