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It is harder to see than it is to express. The whole value of art rests in the artist's ability to see well into what is before him.

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
Robert Earle Henri
Robert Henry Cozad
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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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I am interested in art as a means of living a life not as a means of making a living.
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When the artist is alive in any person, whatever his kind of work may be, he becomes an inventive, searching, daring, self-expressing creature.
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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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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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A mountain seen in the haze of distance must nevertheless look a solid heavy mountain.
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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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By my teaching I hope to inspire you to personal activity and to present your vision.
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I paint for the sole purpose of magnifying the privilege of being alive.
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Life is finding yourself. It is a spirit development.
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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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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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No work of Art is really ever finished. They only stop at good places.
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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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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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Artists must be men of wit, consciously or unconsciously philosophers read, study and think a great deal of life.
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If you think of a school drawing while you work, your drawing will look like one.
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