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Robert Henri
Age: 64 †
Born: 1865
Born: June 24
Died: 1929
Died: July 12
Artist
Painter
Cincinnati
Ohio
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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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Art tends toward balance, order, judgment of relative values, the laws of growth, the economy of living – very good things for anyone to be interested in.
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Genius is not a possession of the limited few, but exists in some degree in everyone. Where there is natural growth, a full and free play of faculties, genius will manifest itself.
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All manifestations of art are but landmarks in the progress of the human spirit toward a thing but as yet sensed and far from being possessed.
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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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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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Do not worry about your originality. You could not get rid of it even if you wanted to.
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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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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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Through art mysterious bonds of understanding and of knowledge are established among men.
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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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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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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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Art is certainly not a pursuit for anyone who wants to make money.
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Art is, after all, only a trace – like a footprint which shows that one has walked bravely and in great happiness.
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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 more simply you see, the more simply you will render. People see too much, scatteringly.
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A picture should be the expression of the will of the painter.
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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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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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