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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
Sense
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Needs
Life
Picture
Wonder
Less
Making
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Lines are results, do not draw them for themselves.
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Painting should never look as if it were done with difficulty, however difficult it may actually have been.
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The pursuit of happiness is a great activity. One must be open and alive. It is the greatest feat man has to accomplish, and spirits must flow. There must be courage. There are no easy ruts to get into which lead to happiness. A man must become interesting to himself and must become actually expressive before he can be happy.
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Through art mysterious bonds of understanding and of knowledge are established among men.
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If a certain activity, such as painting, becomes the habitual mode of expression, it may follow that taking up the painting materials and beginning work with them will act suggestively and so presently evoke a flight into the higher state.
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It seems to me that before a man tries to express anything to the world he must recognize in himself an individual, a new one, very distinct from others.
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Do not expect pictures to say the expected some of the best will have surprises for you, which will, at first, shock you.
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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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The model is not to be copied, but to be realized.
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Completion does not depend on material representation. The work is done when that special thing has been said.
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The artist should be intoxicated with the idea of the thing he wants to express.
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Be a warhorse for work and enjoy even the struggle against defeat.
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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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The world will see many fashions of art and most of the world will follow the fashions and make none. These cults - these 'movements' - are absolutely necessary, or at any rate their causes are, for somewhere in their centres are the ones who bear the Idea, the ones who have questioned, 'But what do I think?' and 'How shall I say it best?
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The man who has honesty, integrity, the love of inquiry, the desire to see beyond, is ready to appreciate good art.
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Self-acquainta nce is a rare condition.
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A mountain seen in the haze of distance must nevertheless look a solid heavy mountain.
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A picture should be the expression of the will of the painter.
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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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Good composition is like a suspension bridge each line adds strength and takes none away... Making lines run into each other is not composition. There must be motive for the connection. Get the art of controlling the observer – that is composition.
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