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There are pictures that manifest education and there are pictures that manifest love.

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
Manifest
Pictures
Education
Creative
Love

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Know what the old masters did. Know how they composed their pictures, but do not fall into the conventions they established. These conventions were right for them, and they are wonderful. They made their language. You make yours. All the past can help you.
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If you work from memory, you are most likely to put in your real feeling.
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No work of Art is really ever finished. They only stop at good places.
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The reason for the survival of the award system is purely commercial.
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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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A picture should be the expression of the will of the painter.
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Feel the dignity of a child. Do not feel superior to him, for you are not.
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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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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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Art cannot be separated from life. It is the expression of the greatest need of which life is capable, and we value art not because of the skilled product, but because of its revelation of a life's experience.
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The good thing about painting from memory is that so much is forgotten.
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When the artist is alive in any person, whatever his kind of work may be, he becomes an inventive, searching, daring, self-expressing creature.
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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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All real works of art look as though they were done in joy.
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Keep a bad drawing until by study you have found out why it is bad.
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I paint for the sole purpose of magnifying the privilege of being alive.
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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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You will never draw the sense of a thing unless you are feeling it at the time you work.
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Your style is the way you talk in paint.
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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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