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What we need is more sense of the wonder of life and less of this business of making a picture.

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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I am interested in art as a means of living a life not as a means of making a living.
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A picture should be the expression of the will of the painter.
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A mountain seen in the haze of distance must nevertheless look a solid heavy mountain.
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Pretend you are dancing or singing a picture. A worker or painter should enjoy his work, else the observer will not enjoy it.
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Count on big lines to express your ideas.
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Self-acquainta nce is a rare condition.
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Work always as if you were a master, expect from yourself a masterpiece.
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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.
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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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The sketch hunter moves through life as he finds it, not passing negligently the things he loves, but stopping to know them, and to note them down in the shorthand of his sketchbook.
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The model is not to be copied, but to be realized.
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It is the common defect of modern art study. Too many students do not know why they draw.
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The pernicious influence of the prize and medal giving in art is so great that it should be stopped. History proves that juries in art have been generally wrong.
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There are pictures that manifest education and there are pictures that manifest love.
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If you work from memory, you are most likely to put in your real feeling.
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There is only one reason for art in America, and that is that the people of America learn the means of expressing themselves in their own time, and their own land.
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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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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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