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Painting should never look as if it were done with difficulty, however difficult it may actually have been.
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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Genius is not a possession of the limited few, but exists in some degree in everyone. Where there is natural growth, a full and free play of faculties, genius will manifest itself.
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You can do anything you want to do. What is rare is this actual wanting to do a specific thing: wanting it so much that you are practically blind to all other things, that nothing else will satisfy you.
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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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The artist should be intoxicated with the idea of the thing he wants to express.
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Lines are results, do not draw them for themselves.
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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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Art need not be intended. It comes inevitably as the tree from the root, the branch from the trunk, the blossom from the twig. None of these forget the present in looking backward or forward. They are occupied wholly with the fulfillment of their own existence.
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All real works of art look as though they were done in joy.
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No work of Art is really ever finished. They only stop at good places.
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Life is finding yourself. It is a spirit development.
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Knowledge of anatomy is a tool like good brushes.
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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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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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Work always as if you were a master, expect from yourself a masterpiece.
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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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You pass people on the street, some are for you, some are not.
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A mountain seen in the haze of distance must nevertheless look a solid heavy mountain.
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I paint for the sole purpose of magnifying the privilege of being alive.
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By my teaching I hope to inspire you to personal activity and to present your vision.
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