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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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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
Making
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Life
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Work always as if you were a master, expect from yourself a masterpiece.
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Keep a bad drawing until by study you have found out why it is bad.
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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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You pass people on the street, some are for you, some are not.
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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 reason for the survival of the award system is purely commercial.
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A mountain seen in the haze of distance must nevertheless look a solid heavy mountain.
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By my teaching I hope to inspire you to personal activity and to present your vision.
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Do whatever you do intensely. The artist is the man who leaves the crowd and goes pioneering. With him there is an idea which is his life.
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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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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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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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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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Beauty is an intangible thing can not be fixed on the surface, and the wear and tear of old age on the body cannot defeat it. Nor will a pretty face make it, for pretty faces are often dull and empty, and beauty is never dull and it fills all spaces.
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If you think of a school drawing while you work, your drawing will look like one.
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Art tends toward balance, order, judgment of relative values, the laws of growth, the economy of living – very good things for anyone to be interested in.
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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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Life is finding yourself. It is a spirit development.
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Pretend you are dancing or singing a picture.
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