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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.

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
People
Land
Learn
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Art
America
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Lines are results, do not draw them for themselves.
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Work always as if you were a master, expect from yourself a masterpiece.
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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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I am interested in art as a means of living a life not as a means of making a living.
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The good thing about painting from memory is that so much is forgotten.
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Students work in schools making life studies for years, win prizes for life studies and find in the end that they know practically nothing of the human figure. They have acquired the ability to copy.
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No work of Art is really ever finished. They only stop at good places.
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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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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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Be a warhorse for work and enjoy even the struggle against defeat.
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Do whatever you do intensely. The artist is the man who leaves the crowd and goes pioneering. With him there is an idea which is his life.
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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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All real works of art look as though they were done in joy.
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Let every student enter the school with this advice. No matter how good the school is, his education is in his own hands. All education must be self education.
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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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Art need not be intended. It comes inevitably as the tree from the root, the branch from the trunk, the blossom from the twig. None of these forget the present in looking backward or forward. They are occupied wholly with the fulfillment of their own existence.
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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.
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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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Good composition is like a suspension bridge - each line adds strength and takes none away.
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Art is, after all, only a trace – like a footprint which shows that one has walked bravely and in great happiness.
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