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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
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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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Art tends toward balance, order, judgment of relative values, the laws of growth, the economy of living – very good things for anyone to be interested in.
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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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A mountain seen in the haze of distance must nevertheless look a solid heavy mountain.
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There are pictures that manifest education and there are pictures that manifest love.
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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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Get the few main lines and see what lines they call out.
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Knowledge of anatomy is a tool like good brushes.
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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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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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The true artist regards his work as a means of talking with men [and women], of saying his say to himself and to others. It is not a question of pay.
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You pass people on the street, some are for you, some are not.
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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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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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I have heard it very often said that an artist does not need intelligence, that his is the province of the soul
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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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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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You will never draw the sense of a thing unless you are feeling it at the time you work.
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Your style is the way you talk in paint.
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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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