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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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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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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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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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The reason for the survival of the award system is purely commercial.
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When the artist is alive in any person, whatever his kind of work may be, he becomes an inventive, searching, daring, self-expressing creature.
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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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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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By my teaching I hope to inspire you to personal activity and to present your vision.
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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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Do not expect pictures to say the expected some of the best will have surprises for you, which will, at first, shock you.
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It seems to me that before a man tries to express anything to the world he must recognize in himself an individual, a new one, very distinct from others.
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There is nothing in all the world more beautiful or significant of the laws of the universe than the nude human body.
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Keep a bad drawing until by study you have found out why it is bad.
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Why do we love the sea? It is because it has some potent power to make us think things we like to think.
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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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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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Through art mysterious bonds of understanding and of knowledge are established among men.
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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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There are pictures that manifest education and there are pictures that manifest love.
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