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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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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 model is not to be copied, but to be realized.
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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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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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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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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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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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All real works of art look as though they were done in joy.
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Through art mysterious bonds of understanding and of knowledge are established among men.
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Cherish your own emotions and never undervalue them.
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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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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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I paint for the sole purpose of magnifying the privilege of being alive.
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The reason for the survival of the award system is purely commercial.
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Work always as if you were a master, expect from yourself a masterpiece.
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I have heard it very often said that an artist does not need intelligence, that his is the province of the soul
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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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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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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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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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