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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
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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.
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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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It's a wrong idea that a master is a finished person. Masters are very faulty they haven't learned everything and they know it.
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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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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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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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Do whatever you do intensely.
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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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Strokes carry a message whether you will it or not. The stroke is just like the artist at the time he makes it. All the certainties, all the uncertainties, all the bigness of his spirit and the littlenesses are in it.
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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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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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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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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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Lines are results, do not draw them for themselves.
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The model is not to be copied, but to be realized.
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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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Good composition is like a suspension bridge each line adds strength and takes none away... Making lines run into each other is not composition. There must be motive for the connection. Get the art of controlling the observer – that is composition.
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