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Artists must be men of wit, consciously or unconsciously philosophers read, study and think a great deal of life.
Robert Henri
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Robert Henri
Age: 64 †
Born: 1865
Born: June 24
Died: 1929
Died: July 12
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Cincinnati
Ohio
Robert Earle Henri
Robert Henry Cozad
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Your style is the way you talk in paint.
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The fun of living is that we have to make ourselves, after all.
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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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Cherish your own emotions and never undervalue them.
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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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The reason for the survival of the award system is purely commercial.
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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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A picture should be the expression of the will of the painter.
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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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Each man must take the material that he finds at hand, see that in it there are the big truths of life, the fundamentally big forces, and then express in his art whatever is the cause of his pleasure.
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Be a warhorse for work and enjoy even the struggle against defeat.
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Good composition is like a suspension bridge - each line adds strength and takes none away.
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All real works of art look as though they were done in joy.
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