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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
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Pictures
Education
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Love

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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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Your painting is the marking of your progression into nature, a sensation of something you see way beyond the two pretty colors over there. Don't stop to paint the material, but push on to give the spirit.
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A picture should be the expression of the will of the painter.
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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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The reason for the survival of the award system is purely commercial.
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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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Cherish your own emotions and never undervalue them.
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Work always as if you were a master, expect from yourself a masterpiece.
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Don't worry about your originality. You couldn't get rid of it even if you wanted to. It will stick with you and show up for better or worse in spite of all you or anyone else can do.
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Drawing is not following a line on the model, it is drawing your sense of the thing.
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There is nothing in all the world more beautiful or significant of the laws of the universe than the nude human body.
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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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The artist should be intoxicated with the idea of the thing he wants to express.
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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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Self-acquainta nce is a rare condition.
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Count on big lines to express your ideas.
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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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Through art mysterious bonds of understanding and of knowledge are established among men.
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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 fun of living is that we have to make ourselves, after all.
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