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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.

Robert Henri

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Robert Henri
Age: 64 †
Born: 1865
Born: June 24
Died: 1929
Died: July 12
Artist
Painter
Cincinnati
Ohio
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Robert Henry Cozad
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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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Do not worry about your originality. You could not get rid of it even if you wanted to.
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Art when really understood is the province of every human being. It is simply a question of doing things, anything, well. It is not an outside, extra thing.
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Strokes carry a message whether you will it or not. The stroke is just like the artist at the time he makes it. All the certainties, all the uncertainties, all the bigness of his spirit and the littlenesses are in it.
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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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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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The fun of living is that we have to make ourselves, after all.
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Work always as if you were a master, expect from yourself a masterpiece.
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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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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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Artists must be men of wit, consciously or unconsciously philosophers read, study and think a great deal of life.
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Students work in schools making life studies for years, win prizes for life studies and find in the end that they know practically nothing of the human figure. They have acquired the ability to copy.
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