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Robert Henri
Age: 64 †
Born: 1865
Born: June 24
Died: 1929
Died: July 12
Artist
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Cincinnati
Ohio
Robert Earle Henri
Robert Henry Cozad
Robert Earl Henri
Henri
Robert Cozad Henri
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There are pictures that manifest education and there are pictures that manifest love.
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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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Get the few main lines and see what lines they call out.
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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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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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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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It is harder to see than it is to express. The whole value of art rests in the artist's ability to see well into what is before him.
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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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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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If you work from memory, you are most likely to put in your real feeling.
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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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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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Cherish your own emotions and never undervalue them.
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The reason for the survival of the award system is purely commercial.
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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 whatever you do intensely.
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Students work in schools making life studies for years, win prizes for life studies and find in the end that they know practically nothing of the human figure. They have acquired the ability to copy.
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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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A mountain seen in the haze of distance must nevertheless look a solid heavy mountain.
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Feel the dignity of a child. Do not feel superior to him, for you are not.
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