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All real works of art look as though they were done in joy.

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
Henri
Robert Cozad Henri
Art
Look
Looks
Done
Real
Works
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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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Your style is the way you talk in paint.
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Manet did not do the expected. He was a pioneer. He followed his individual whim. Told the public what he wanted it to know, not the time worn things the public already knew and thought it wanted to hear again. The public was very much offended.
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A weak background is a deadly thing.
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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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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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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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Drawing is not following a line on the model, it is drawing your sense of the thing.
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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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I am interested in art as a means of living a life not as a means of making a living.
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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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If you think of a school drawing while you work, your drawing will look like one.
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Art is certainly not a pursuit for anyone who wants to make money.
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The artist should be intoxicated with the idea of the thing he wants to express.
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Get the few main lines and see what lines they call out.
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The artist should have a powerful will. He should be powerfully possessed by one idea
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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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There are pictures that manifest education and there are pictures that manifest love.
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You can do anything you want to do. What is rare is this actual wanting to do a specific thing: wanting it so much that you are practically blind to all other things, that nothing else will satisfy you.
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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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