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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
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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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Artists must be men of wit, consciously or unconsciously philosophers read, study and think a great deal of life.
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There are pictures that manifest education and there are pictures that manifest love.
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Keep a bad drawing until by study you have found out why it is bad.
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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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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 fun of living is that we have to make ourselves, after all.
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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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Pretend you are dancing or singing a picture.
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You pass people on the street, some are for you, some are not.
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Through art mysterious bonds of understanding and of knowledge are established among men.
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Be a warhorse for work and enjoy even the struggle against defeat.
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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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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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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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A picture should be the expression of the will of the painter.
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The reason for the survival of the award system is purely commercial.
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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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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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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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