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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.

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
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The pursuit of happiness is a great activity. One must be open and alive. It is the greatest feat man has to accomplish, and spirits must flow. There must be courage. There are no easy ruts to get into which lead to happiness. A man must become interesting to himself and must become actually expressive before he can be happy.
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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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By my teaching I hope to inspire you to personal activity and to present your vision.
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Your painting is the marking of your progression into nature, a sensation of something you see way beyond the two pretty colors over there. Don't stop to paint the material, but push on to give the spirit.
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No work of Art is really ever finished. They only stop at good places.
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The artist should have a powerful will. He should be powerfully possessed by one idea
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Life is finding yourself. It is a spirit development.
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Knowledge of anatomy is a tool like good brushes.
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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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Work always as if you were a master, expect from yourself a masterpiece.
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Through art mysterious bonds of understanding and of knowledge are established among men.
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Your style is the way you talk in paint.
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Do whatever you do intensely.
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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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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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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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What we need is more sense of the wonder of life and less of this business of making a picture.
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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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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 good thing about painting from memory is that so much is forgotten.
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