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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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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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Beauty is no material thing. Beauty cannot be copied. Beauty is the sensation of pleasure on the mind of the seer. No thing is beautiful. But all things await the sensitive and imaginative mind that may be aroused to pleasurable emotion at sight of them. This is beauty.
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The artist should have a powerful will. He should be powerfully possessed by one idea
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Beauty is an intangible thing can not be fixed on the surface, and the wear and tear of old age on the body cannot defeat it. Nor will a pretty face make it, for pretty faces are often dull and empty, and beauty is never dull and it fills all spaces.
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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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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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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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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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Art is certainly not a pursuit for anyone who wants to make money.
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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 am interested in art as a means of living a life not as a means of making a living.
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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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What we need is more sense of the wonder of life and less of this business of making a picture.
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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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By my teaching I hope to inspire you to personal activity and to present your vision.
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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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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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It is the common defect of modern art study. Too many students do not know why they draw.
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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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