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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.
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
Robert Earl Henri
Henri
Robert Cozad Henri
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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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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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The model is not to be copied, but to be realized.
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I paint for the sole purpose of magnifying the privilege of being alive.
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Through art mysterious bonds of understanding and of knowledge are established among men.
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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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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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The man who has honesty, integrity, the love of inquiry, the desire to see beyond, is ready to appreciate good art.
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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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Work always as if you were a master, expect from yourself a masterpiece.
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Cherish your own emotions and never undervalue them.
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Art is certainly not a pursuit for anyone who wants to make money.
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The reason for the survival of the award system is purely commercial.
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Get the few main lines and see what lines they call out.
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Lines are results, do not draw them for themselves.
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All manifestations of art are but landmarks in the progress of the human spirit toward a thing but as yet sensed and far from being possessed.
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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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The artist should have a powerful will. He should be powerfully possessed by one idea
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The world will see many fashions of art and most of the world will follow the fashions and make none. These cults - these 'movements' - are absolutely necessary, or at any rate their causes are, for somewhere in their centres are the ones who bear the Idea, the ones who have questioned, 'But what do I think?' and 'How shall I say it best?
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