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Do not worry about your originality. You could not get rid of it even if you wanted to.
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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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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The fun of living is that we have to make ourselves, after all.
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A mountain seen in the haze of distance must nevertheless look a solid heavy mountain.
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Do whatever you do intensely. The artist is the man who leaves the crowd and goes pioneering. With him there is an idea which is his life.
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Feel the dignity of a child. Do not feel superior to him, for you are not.
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A weak background is a deadly thing.
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The good thing about painting from memory is that so much is forgotten.
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Art is certainly not a pursuit for anyone who wants to make money.
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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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All real works of art look as though they were done in joy.
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The artist should be intoxicated with the idea of the thing he wants to express.
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In a tree there is a spirit of life, a spirit of growth and a spirit of holding its head up.
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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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Do whatever you do intensely.
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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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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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Develop your visual memory. Draw everything you have drawn from the model from memory as well.
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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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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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