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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
Artist
Painter
Cincinnati
Ohio
Robert Earle Henri
Robert Henry Cozad
Robert Earl Henri
Henri
Robert Cozad Henri
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Do not let the fact that things are not made for you, that conditions are not as they should be stop you. Go on anyway. Everything depends on those who go on anyway.
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Know what the old masters did. Know how they composed their pictures, but do not fall into the conventions they established. These conventions were right for them, and they are wonderful. They made their language. You make yours. All the past can help you.
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Pretend you are dancing or singing a picture.
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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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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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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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A mountain seen in the haze of distance must nevertheless look a solid heavy mountain.
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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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All manifestations of art are but landmarks in the progress of the human spirit toward a thing but as yet sensed and far from being possessed.
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Work always as if you were a master, expect from yourself a masterpiece.
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The more simply you see, the more simply you will render. People see too much, scatteringly.
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