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Art cannot be separated from life. It is the expression of the greatest need of which life is capable, and we value art not because of the skilled product, but because of its revelation of a life's experience.

Robert Henri

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Robert Henri
Age: 64 †
Born: 1865
Born: June 24
Died: 1929
Died: July 12
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Cincinnati
Ohio
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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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Completion does not depend on material representation. The work is done when that special thing has been said.
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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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Beauty is no material thing. Beauty cannot be copied. Beauty is the sensation of pleasure on the mind of the seer. No thing is beautiful. But all things await the sensitive and imaginative mind that may be aroused to pleasurable emotion at sight of them. This is beauty.
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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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Artists must be men of wit, consciously or unconsciously philosophers read, study and think a great deal of life.
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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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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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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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Count on big lines to express your ideas.
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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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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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You will never draw the sense of a thing unless you are feeling it at the time you work.
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There are pictures that manifest education and there are pictures that manifest love.
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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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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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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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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 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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