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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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I am interested in art as a means of living a life not as a means of making a living.
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Today must not be a souvenir of yesterday, and so the struggle is everlasting. Who am I today? What do I see today? How shall I use what I know, and how shall I avoid being victim of what I know? Life is not repetition.
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I paint for the sole purpose of magnifying the privilege of being alive.
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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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Through art mysterious bonds of understanding and of knowledge are established among men.
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Manet did not do the expected. He was a pioneer. He followed his individual whim. Told the public what he wanted it to know, not the time worn things the public already knew and thought it wanted to hear again. The public was very much offended.
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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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Get the few main lines and see what lines they call out.
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All real works of art look as though they were done in joy.
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Art is certainly not a pursuit for anyone who wants to make money.
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Do whatever you do intensely.
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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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Knowledge of anatomy is a tool like good brushes.
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After all, the goal is not making art. It is living a life. Those who live their lives will leave the stuff that is really art.
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