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Cherish your own emotions and never undervalue them.

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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Emotional
Emotion
Never
Undervalue
Cherish
Emotions

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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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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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If you think of a school drawing while you work, your drawing will look like one.
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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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Do whatever you do intensely.
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The pernicious influence of the prize and medal giving in art is so great that it should be stopped. History proves that juries in art have been generally wrong.
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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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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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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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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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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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What we need is more sense of the wonder of life and less of this business of making a picture.
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Your style is the way you talk in paint.
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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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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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It seems to me that before a man tries to express anything to the world he must recognize in himself an individual, a new one, very distinct from others.
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The reason for the survival of the award system is purely commercial.
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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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Self-acquainta nce is a rare condition.
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You will never draw the sense of a thing unless you are feeling it at the time you work.
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