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The artist should have a powerful will. He should be powerfully possessed by one idea

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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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 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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Feel the dignity of a child. Do not feel superior to him, for you are not.
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Art is certainly not a pursuit for anyone who wants to make money.
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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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There are pictures that manifest education and there are pictures that manifest love.
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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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Do not worry about your originality. You could not get rid of it even if you wanted to.
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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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You pass people on the street, some are for you, some are not.
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If you think of a school drawing while you work, your drawing will look like one.
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The fun of living is that we have to make ourselves, after all.
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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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The pernicious influence of the prize and medal giving in art is so great that it should be stopped. History proves that juries in art have been generally wrong.
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What we need is more sense of the wonder of life and less of this business of making a picture.
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Life is finding yourself. It is a spirit development.
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The more simply you see, the more simply you will render. People see too much, scatteringly.
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Pretend you are dancing or singing a picture.
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Good composition is like a suspension bridge - each line adds strength and takes none away.
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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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