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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
Never
Undervalue
Cherish
Emotions
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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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Do not let the fact that things are not made for you, that conditions are not as they should be stop you. Go on anyway. Everything depends on those who go on anyway.
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The good thing about painting from memory is that so much is forgotten.
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Today must not be a souvenir of yesterday, and so the struggle is everlasting. Who am I today? What do I see today? How shall I use what I know, and how shall I avoid being victim of what I know? Life is not repetition.
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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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The reason for the survival of the award system is purely commercial.
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I have heard it very often said that an artist does not need intelligence, that his is the province of the soul
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There is only one reason for art in America, and that is that the people of America learn the means of expressing themselves in their own time, and their own land.
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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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Artists must be men of wit, consciously or unconsciously philosophers read, study and think a great deal of life.
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No work of Art is really ever finished. They only stop at good places.
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Get the few main lines and see what lines they call out.
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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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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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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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I paint for the sole purpose of magnifying the privilege of being alive.
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Each sensation is precious, protect it, cherish it, keep it. Never give it away. You must develop that balance which allows all of the world to come in to you, and only that which you have expressed in your art to move back out again into the world.
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